Joseph Anthony Cremona

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Joseph Anthony Cremona (born August 21, 1922 in Rome , Italy - † March 19, 2003 ) was a British linguist and Romanist , Italianist, Frenchist, Hispanist and Malteseist .

life and work

Joe Cremona's parents came from the island of Gozo near Malta . His father was in the British diplomatic service. Cremona grew up trilingual in Rome (Italian and Maltese at home, French in the Lycée Chateaubriand ). In 1939 he came to England and studied medicine from 1940 to 1943, then modern languages. In 1948 he graduated in French and Spanish from University College London . In 1949 he became a teacher of Italian at Westfield College. He received his doctorate in 1956 with the thesis The dialect of the Vallée d'Aure. Hautes-Pyrénées (unpublished) and was a lecturer at the University of Cambridge from 1955 to 1989 . He was a Fellow of Trinity Hall from 1966 until his death .

Cremona founded in 1957 (with Sidney Allen [1918-2004] and John Trim [1924-2013]) the Cambridge Linguistic Society and in 1973 the Romance Linguistics Seminar Cambridge. Throughout his life he was committed to opening up traditional philologies to modern linguistics and to investigating contemporary languages.

Fonts

  • Buongiorno Italia !, London 1982 (Italian TV course)

literature

  • Studies in the Romance verb. Essays offered to Joe Cremona on the occasion of his 60th birthday , edited by Nigel Vincent and Martin Harris, London 1982
  • Linguistics in Britain. Personal histories , ed. by E. Keith Brown and Vivien Law, Oxford 2002, pp. 8–89 (Joseph Cremona)
  • Maltese linguistics. A snapshot. In memory of Joseph A. Cremona (1922-2003), ed. by Ray Fabri, Bochum 2009 (pp. VII-XII: Ray Fabri, Introduction: in memory of Joseph A. Cremona)

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personal data
SURNAME Cremona, Joseph Anthony
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cremona, Joseph A .; Cremona, Joe; Cremona, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British linguist and Romanist (Italianist, Frenchist, Hispanist and Malteseist)
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 2003