Martin Hummel

Martin Hummel (born May 14, 1960 ) is a German Romance studies and university professor. His main research interests are the French , Portuguese and Spanish languages ​​with questions regarding their semantics , syntax , word formation, stylistics and text linguistics .

Live and act

From 1981 to 1991, Hummel studied Romance philology , political science and economics at the Philipps University in Marburg . During his studies in 1985 he obtained the “Certificat d'Etudes Politiques” at the Institut d'études politiques in Paris . His doctorate followed in 1991 in Romance Philology (French, Portuguese, Spanish and political science). He was u. a. with Christina Ossenkop a student of the German Romanist , Hispanic , Lusitanist and university professor Dieter Woll . From 1993 to 1998 he was initially a research assistant at the Institute for Romance Philology at the Philipps University in Marburg, where he obtained his habilitation in 1998, when he received the Venia legendi for Romance Philology.

Subsequently he was appointed professor for Romance Linguistics (French / Spanish) at the Gerhard-Mercator-Universität-GH in Duisburg , 1998 to 2000, and finally a call to the TU Dresden where he taught as Professor for Romance Linguistics from 2000-2001 researched. Since 2001 he has held the post of professor for Romance studies II at the Karl-Franzens-University in Graz .

Awards

• 1993: Strasbourg Prize for his book Cadre, employé and employee
• 1994: Prize from the University of Marburg for outstanding scientific achievements

Works (selection)

• Adverbal and adverbial adjectives in Spanish: constructions of the type Los niños deurmen tranquilos and Maria corre rápido. (= Tübingen Contributions to Linguistics. Volume 446). Gunter Narr Verlag, Tübingen 2000, ISBN 3-8233-5112-5 .
• The basic value of the Spanish subjunctive. Narr, Tübingen 2001.
• Polifuncionalidad, polisemia y estrategia retórica: los signos discursivos con base atributiva entre oralidad y escritura. Vol. 374, Supplements to the Journal for Romance Philology, De Gruyter, Berlin 2012,
• Cadre, employé and clerk. A linguistic contribution to comparative cultural research in the German-French language area of ​​the present. Tübingen 1993, In: Vox Romanica 53 (1994): 384-389
• Polyfunctionality, polysemy, and rhetorical strategy - The functional, sematic and pragmatic motivation of discourse functions. Graz Linguistic Studies (magazine issue), (2013) 79, ISSN  1015-0498
• Lusitanica et Romanica. Festschrift for Dieter Woll for his 65th birthday, ed. by Martin Hummel and Christina Ossenkop, Hamburg 1998
• Sincronía y diacronía de los llamados adjetivos adverbializados y de los adverbios en -mente. Anuario de Letras, Volume 1, Issue 2, (2013), pp. 215-281 doi: 10.1016 / S0185-1373 (13) 70257-X
• Diminutive as apreziativa. On the theory of the diminutive in Spanish. Romanistisches Jahrbuch, Vol. 45 (1994), ISSN 0080-3898, p. 243

Web links

• Bibliography by Martin Hummel
• Annette Endruschat (Leipzig), PhiN 30/2004: 50 on Martin Hummel (2002): The basic value of the Spanish subjunctive, Tübingen: Narr.
• Photography by Martin Hummel [1]

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Univ.-Prof. Dr. Martin Hummel. Romance Linguistics (Spanish / French), Karl-Franzens-University Graz, official website