Hans Marchand

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Hans Marchand (born October 1, 1907 in Krefeld , † December 13, 1978 in Genoa ) was a German linguist.

He studied Romance languages , English and Latin at the universities of Vienna , Paris and Cologne and was a university professor in Istanbul (with his teacher Leo Spitzer ), Yale , Bard and from 1957 to 1973 at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen . He has published work on linguistic phenomena in various languages, including English, French, Turkish and Italian. However, he became known for his work on word formation in the English language. Marchand founded the Tübingen linguistic school in the 1960s and influenced a number of linguists such as Leonhard Lipka , who continue to be regarded as representatives of his theories.

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  1. Hans Marchand † . In: Anglia . Journal of English Philology . Volume 97, No. 3/4 . Mouton de Gruyter, January 1, 1979, p. 19th ff . ( deepdyve.com [accessed September 29, 2016]).
  2. Pavol Štekauer, Rochelle Lieber: Handbook of word-formation . Springer, Dordrecht 2005, ISBN 1-4020-3597-7 , pp. 99 f . (English).