Kurt Braunmüller
Kurt Braunmüller (* 1948 in Stuttgart ) is a German specialist in German.
Life
He studied German, history and Scandinavian languages at the University of Tübingen (1st state examination in 1972). After receiving his doctorate in 1974 as Dr. phil. at the University of Tübingen and his habilitation in 1981 for the subject Germanic Philology at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg , he taught at the Universities of Freiburg im Breisgau (inter alia, substitute professorship) and Kiel (as a Heisenberg fellow). Since 1981 he has been a corresponding member of the Research Center for Multilingualism in Brussels . Since 1990 he has been a member of the Hamburg Center for Multilingualism and Language Contacts. Since 1997 he has been a member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences . From 1999 to 2011 he was a member of the Collaborative Research Center 538 “Multilingualism”. Since 2000 he has been a member of Det Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskab . Since 2008 he has been a member of the Agder Academy of Sciences . In 2012, he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Agder . Since 2014 he has been a member of the Kungliga Humanistiska Vetenskapssamfundet i Uppsala .
His main research interests are language typology, contrastive linguistics, historical linguistics, multilingualism and language contacts, language theory (morphology, syntax) and Germanic, especially Scandinavian languages.
Fonts (selection)
- Reference and pronouns. On the deictics and pro forms of German . Tübingen 1977, ISBN 3-484-10262-4 .
- Syntax typological studies on Germanic . Tübingen 1982, ISBN 3-87808-566-4 .
- German-Scandinavian in comparison . Oslo 1996, ISBN 82-7099-263-1 .
- The Scandinavian languages at a glance . A. Francke, Tübingen 2007 (3rd edition), ISBN 978-3-7720-8229-0 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Braunmüller, Kurt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Germanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stuttgart |