Jens Rickmeyer

Jens Rickmeyer (born July 5, 1945 in Hamburg ) is a German Japanologist , his specialty is the linguistics of the Japanese language .

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Even during his school days, Rickmeyer attended courses in languages ​​such as Hebrew and Aramaic . From 1965 to 1972 he completed his studies in Japanese Studies ( Günther Wenck ), Sinology and General Linguistics at the University of Hamburg , from which he completed his doctorate in 1973. After research work in Germany and Japan and a substitute professor at the University of Marburg , he was Professor of Japanese Studies (Linguistics) at the University of Marburg from 1987 to 1991. From 1991 until his early retirement in 2008 he was Professor of Japanese Language and Literature at the University of Bochum .

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Rickmeyer's main area of ​​work is the description of modern Japanese in the core areas of morphology and syntax . His working method can be assigned to structuralist linguistics. In morphology, he defines morpheme classes according to formal criteria such as position and paradigms. Its syntax is dependent . He also works on verb valence . His most famous work is the Japanese morphosyntax .

Other areas of work are Classical Japanese , Old Japanese and Ryūkyū .

Publications (selection)

• Introduction to classic Japanese. Based on the anthology of poems “Hyakunin isshu” . Iudicium Verlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-89129-475-1 .
• Japanese morpho syntax . Groos, Heidelberg 1995, ISBN 3-87276-718-6 (former title: Morphosyntax of the Japanese contemporary language ).
• Classic Japanese reading. Genji no monogatari . Buske, Hamburg 1991, ISBN 3-87548-014-7 .
• Small Japanese valence lexicon . 2nd edition Buske, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-87548-513-4 .
• The Complementary Sentences in Modern Japanese . Buske, Hamburg 1973, ISBN 3-87118-148-X (Hamburg phonetic contributions; 11).

Web links

• Literature by and about Jens Rickmeyer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website of Jens Rickmeyer at the University of Bochum