Karl-Heinz Best

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Karl-Heinz Best (born January 28, 1943 in Koblenz ) is a German linguist who worked at the University of Göttingen .

Life

Best studied general linguistics and German studies at the University of Bonn from 1964 to 1966, and from 1966 to 1971 at the Ruhr University Bochum with a focus on general linguistics, German and Scandinavian studies . He was a student assistant at the Institute for Linguistics at the Ruhr University. In 1971 he received his doctorate in Bochum. From 1971 to 1974 he was a research assistant in Bochum, from 1974 first research assistant, then academic councilor and academic senior councilor at the University of Göttingen. Best is retired.

Focus of work

His work focuses on quantitative linguistics (with application to German and North Germanic languages ), as well as graphics , morphology , language acquisition and language change , borrowing processes ( foreign words / loan words ), comprehensibility research and the history of quantitative linguistics. He works at the Göttingen and Halle conferences on the subject of knowledge transfer (transfer sciences ) and is co-editor of the magazine Glottometrics , a member of the editorial board of the magazine Göttinger Contributions to Linguistics and head of the Göttingen project Quantitative Linguistics. His work includes several books, over 200 essays, reviews and lectures and over 100 book advertisements in the Germanistik magazine .

Publications

  • Problems of analogy research (= Societas Linguistica Europaea [Hrsg]: Commentationes Societatis Linguisticae Europaeae. Volume 6). Hueber, Munich 1973, DNB 730252728 (At the same time: Bochum, University, Department of Philology, Dissertation 1971).
  • with Jörg Kohlhase (Ed.): Exact language change research. herodot, Göttingen 1983, ISBN 3-88694-024-1 .
  • (Ed.): The Distribution of Word and Sentence Length (= Glottometrika. Volume 16; Quantitative linguistics. Vol. 58). Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, Trier 1997, ISBN 3-88476-276-1 (contributions partly in German, partly in English).
  • (Ed.): Frequency distributions in texts. Peust & Gutschmidt, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-933043-08-5 .
  • Quantitative Linguistics. An approximation. 2001. 3rd edition: Peust & Gutschmidt, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-933043-17-4 .
  • History of quantitative linguistics . XIX. August Schleicher (1821–1868). In: Glottometrics . tape 13 . RAM-Verlag, 2006, ISSN  1617-8351 , p. 73–75 (English, full text [PDF; 5.2 MB ; accessed on August 16, 2019] The article deals with Schleicher's importance for quantitative linguistics .).
  • LinK - linguistics in brief with an outlook on quantitative linguistics. Script. 2002. 5th edition: RAM, Lüdenscheid 2008.
  • Sinisms in German and English . In: Glottometrics . tape 17 . RAM-Verlag, 2008, ISSN  1617-8351 , p. 87–93 ( full text [PDF; 2.5 MB ; accessed on August 16, 2019]).
  • Karl-Heinz Best, Emmerich Kelih (Ed.): Borrowings and foreign words: Quantitative aspects . RAM-Verlag, Lüdenscheid 2014, ISBN 978-3-942303-23-1 .
  • Ioan-Iovitz Popescu, Karl-Heinz Best, Gabriel Altmann: Unified Modeling of Length in Language (=  Studies in quantitative linguistics . Volume 16 ). RAM-Verlag, Lüdenscheid 2014, ISBN 978-3-942303-26-2 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2018090611554274502116 (English).
  • Studies in the history of quantitative linguistics . tape 1 . RAM-Verlag, Lüdenscheid 2015, ISBN 978-3-942303-30-9 .
  • Karl-Heinz Best, Otto Rottmann: Quantitative Linguistics, an Invitation . RAM-Verlag, Lüdenscheid 2017, ISBN 978-3-942303-51-4 (English).

literature

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  • Wilfried Kürschner (Ed.): Linguist Handbook. Volume 1: A - L. Biographical and bibliographical data of German-speaking linguists of the present. Narr, Tübingen 1994, ISBN 3-8233-5000-5 , p. 69.
Festschrift
  • Reinhard Köhler, Gabriel Altmann (Eds.): Issues in Quantitative Linguistics . tape 3 : Dedicated to Karl-Heinz Best on the occasion of his 70th birthday. RAM-Verlag, Lüdenscheid 2013, ISBN 978-3-942303-12-5 (English).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Glottometrics 1, 2001 ff. (PDF downloads freely accessible under full texts ).
personal data
SURNAME Best, Karl-Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German linguist
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Koblenz