Jan Mulder (linguist)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jan Mulder ( 1919 - October 27, 2011 ) was a Dutch linguist .

Life

After his military service in the Dutch East Indies , Mulder studied Sinology, Indonesian languages, linguistics and anthropology at the University of Jakarta . After the Second World War he continued his studies in Leiden and received his doctorate in Oxford . In 1968 Mulder got a professorship at St. Andrews. When the linguistic seminar there closed in 1983, Mulder was still visiting professor at the University of Freiburg and Mahidol University in Thailand. Mulder spent the last years of his life in his Dutch homeland.

Services

In the tradition of the Prague School and under the influence of André Martinet , Mulder developed the theory of axiomatic functionalism . He worked u. a. worked closely with Sándor Hervey and some students.

Works (selection)

  • Sets and Relations in Phonology - A Theory of Linguistic Description with Special Reference to Pekingese , DPhil. Thesis, University of Oxford, 1966
  • Sets and Relations in Phonology: an Axiomatic Approah to the Description of Speech , Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1968
  • (with Sándor Hervey) Theory of the Linguistic Sign , The Hague, Mouton, 1972
  • (with Sándor Hervey): The Strategy of Linguistics. Papers on the Theory and Methodology of Axiomatic Functionalism , Edinburgh, Scottish Academic Press, 1980
  • Foundations of Axiomatic Linguistics , Berlin-New York, Mouton De Gruyter, 1989
  • (with Paul Rastall) Ontological Questions in Linguistics , Munich, lincom Europa, 2005
  • (with Sándor Hervey) Postulates for Axiomatic Functionalis , Linguistica online, 2009 < http://www.phil.muni.cz/linguistica/art/mulderhervey/muh-001.pdf >

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.phil.muni.cz/af/people.html
personal data
SURNAME Mulder, Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch linguist
DATE OF BIRTH 1919
DATE OF DEATH October 27, 2011