Johannes Kabatek

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Johannes Kabatek (* 1965 in Stuttgart ) is a German Romanist.

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Kabatek grew up in Gerlingen near Stuttgart and from 1984 studied Romance studies, politics and musicology in Tübingen . In 1995 he was at Brigitte Schlieben-Lange and Eugenio Coseriu with a thesis Galician-Spanish language contact doctorate . The habilitation took place in 2003 with a study on the relationship between language and legal history in the Romance Middle Ages.

Kabatek is Full Professor of Romance Philology with a special focus on Ibero-Romance Linguistics at the University of Zurich .

Kabatek mainly deals with the Ibero-Romance languages. His research areas include the investigation of discourse traditions, variety linguistics, the work of Eugenio Coserius, the history of linguistics in the 20th century, language contact research and the study of Galician in the past and present.

Kabatek was founding president of the Federation of International Catalan Associations (FIAC), President of the German Association of Catalans and President of the German Association of Hispanics.

Kabatek is a corresponding member of the Royal Galician Academy and the Royal Spanish Academy.

In 2016 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Suceava (Romania).

He is the son of the comic publisher Adolf Kabatek and brother of the writer Elisabeth Kabatek.

Works

  • Lingüística coseriana, lingüística histórica, tradiciones discursivas , Madrid: Vervuert - Iberoamericana, 2018.
  • Tradiţii discursive. Studii , Bucharest: Editura Academiei Române 2015.
  • [with Claus Pusch]: Spanish Linguistics , Tübingen: Narr (Bachelor knowledge), 2009.
  • The Bolognese Renaissance and the expansion of Romance languages. Legal discourse traditions and language development in southern France and Spain in the 12th and 13th centuries , Tübingen: Niemeyer ( Supplements to the Zeitschrift für Romanische Philologie 321 ), 2005.
  • Os falantes como lingüistas. Tradición, innovación e interferencias no galego actual , Vigo: Xerais, 2000 (Universitaria series).
  • [with Adolfo Murguía] "The things say as they are ...". An interview with Eugenio Coseriu , Tübingen: Narr 1997.

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SURNAME Kabatek, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Romanist
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart