Karl Heinz Wagner (linguist)

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Karl Heinz Wagner (born March 21, 1938 ) is a German linguist and editor .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1959, Wagner studied English , Romance studies , philosophy and education in Erlangen and Edinburgh (state examination in 1964) and became a research assistant at the English seminar at Kiel University . In 1968 he received his doctorate in English, Romance studies and general linguistics and, after a short time, became a research assistant at the Institute for Linguistics in Stuttgart . In 1971 he was appointed to the professorship for linguistics with a focus on English at the University of Bremen . He is retired.

Wagner was an early representative of generative grammar in Germany. Later he mainly taught computational linguistics . He publishes the series “Bremer Linguistic Colloquium” (BLIcK).

Fonts

  • Generative Grammatical Studies in the Old English Language . Julius Groos, Heidelberg 1969 (dissertation. Kile 1968)
  • with J. Bechert, D. Clement, W. Thümmel: Introduction to the generative transformation grammar. A textbook . Hueber, Munich 1970.
  • Author's text system EDIT & FORM. Manual . Georg Thieme, Stuttgart 1986.

Editorial activity

Since 1988 Wagner has been the editor of the Bremen Linguistic Colloquium (BLIcK) together with Wolfgang Wildgen :

  • BLIcK 1 - Studies on language contact . 1988.
  • BLICK 2 - Studies on grammar and language theory. University of Bremen . 1990.
  • BLICK 3 - Studies in Sociolinguistics and Language History. University of Bremen . 1992.
  • BLICK 4 - Rhetoric - Language and Thought - Ethnolinguistics. University of Bremen . 1993.
  • BLICK 5 - Cognitive Linguistics and Interpretation. University of Bremen . 1994.
  • BLICK 6 - Studies in phonology, grammar, philosophy of language and semiotics . 1998.
  • LOOK 7 - Roger Böhm: Notional Grammar, Word Classes and Dependency . 1998.

Further

  • Eberhard Klein, Françoise Pouradier Duteil , Karl Heinz Wagner (eds.): Business linguistics and linguistics company. Files of the 24th Linguistic Colloquium . University of Bremen, 4th – 6th September 1989. 2 volumes. Niemeyer, Tübingen 1991.
  • Winfried Boeder, Christoph Schroeder, Karl Heinz Wagner, Wolfgang Wildgen (Hrsg.): Language in space and time . 2 volumes. Gunter Narr, Tübingen 1997.

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personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Karl Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German linguist
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1938