Lutz Eberhard Edzard

Lutz Eberhard Edzard (* 1962 ) is a German Arabist .

Life

From 1982 to 1988 he studied Semitic, Arabic and theoretical linguistics in Munich and Bonn . In 1988 he received his Magister Artium from the University of Munich . From 1989 to 1992 he studied at the University of California, Berkeley Near Eastern Studies, Arabic and Semitic Linguistic. After the Ph.D. In 1992 at UC Berkeley he was a visiting scholar at the United Nations (Translation and Editorial Division) and at New York University from 1994 to 1995 . From 1994 to 2002 he was a lecturer for Arabic and Semitic at the University of Bonn (Oriental Seminar, Stefan Wild ). After his habilitation in 1999 in Semitic Studies at the University of Bonn , he has been professor for Semitic linguistics at the University of Oslo since 2002 . Since 2013 he has been teaching as professor for Arabic and Semitic studies at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg .

Polygenesis, convergence, and entropy. An alternative model of linguistic evolution applied to semitic linguistics . Wiesbaden 1998, ISBN 3-447-04102-1 .
Language as a medium of legal norms. Implications of the use of Arabic as a language in the United Nations system . Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-428-09307-0 .
Arabic, Hebrew and Amharic as languages in modern diplomatic documents. Grammatical, lexical and stylistic problems in a synchronous and diachronic perspective . Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 3-447-05338-0 .
with Silje Alvestad: La-ḥšōḇ, but la-ḥăzōr? Sonority, optimality, and the Hebrew p.ḥ. forms . Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 978-3-447-05910-7 .