Peter Erdmann

Peter Erdmann (born June 28, 1941 in Posen ) is a German linguist .

Education

Erdmann studied English and German at the University of Hamburg from 1962 to 1965 . At Harvard University he studied linguistics from 1966 to 1968. He graduated with a master's degree in linguistics. From 1968 to 1972 he continued his studies at the University of Hamburg. The first state examination was obtained in 1969 in German and English. The University of Hamburg doctorate him in 1972, Dr. phil. The habilitation in English linguistics took place in 1975 at the same university.

Professional background

1965–66: Acting instructor for German at Florida State University in Tallahassee (Fla.). 1970–72: Administrator of a research assistant position at the University of Hamburg . 1972–74: Research assistant at the University of Hamburg. 1974–75: University professor (H3) at the comprehensive university / University of Kassel. 1975–1995: University professor (C4) at Saarland University. 1995–2009: University Professor (C4) at the Technical Technical University of Berlin

Calls

Kassel (1978), Osnabrück (1985), FU Berlin (1987), Hanover (1991), TU Berlin (1994)

Academic offices

• Saarland University: Vice Dean (1979–80), Dean (1981–83), Vice President (1986–88, 1988–90)
• Technical University of Berlin: Vice Dean (1998–99, 2005–07, 2007–09), Dean (1999–01, 2001–03, 2003–05)

Visiting professorships (since 1980)

• 1984 (fall term) Columbia University (New York) and The City University of New York
• 1986 (fall term) University of California, Berkeley
• 1988 (fall term) Kunsan National University, Kunsan (South Korea)
• 1991 (fall term) University of California, San Diego
• 1992 (spring term) University of California, San Diego
• 1993 (spring term) University of California, San Diego
• 2010 (fall term) Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing

Publications (selection)

• 1972 Deep phonological history of the sound of English vowels (Athenaeum scripts Linguistics, 4). Frankfurt / M .: Athenaeum
• 1976 There sentences in English. A relational study based on a corpus of written texts . (Tuduv Studies. Series Linguistics and Literature Studies, 6). Munich: Tuduv
• 1990. Discourse and Grammar. Focussing and defocussing in English . (Research & Studies English Studies, 4). Tübingen: Niemeyer
• 1997. The for ... to construction in English . (Sprachwelten, 11). Frankfurt / M .: Long
• 1972 "For the structuralist explanation of the i-umlauts." Linguistics 78.16-24
• 1972 "Suffixal j in Germanic." Language 48.407-415
• 1972 "The English Great Vowel Shift and Generative Phonology." Lingua 29.243-273
• 1980 "On the history of subject contact clauses in English." Folia Linguistica Historica 1.139-170
• 1981 "Preposed ING-forms in English." Folia Linguistica 15,363-386
• 1988 "On the principle of 'weight' in English". In: C. Duncan-Rose / Th. Vennemann (eds.). On Language. Rhetorica Phonologica Syntactica. A Festschrift for Robert P. Stockwell from his friends and colleagues . : Routledge, pp. 325-339
• 1988 "(Non-) Inverting negatives in clause-initial position in English". In: J. Klegraf / D. Nehls (eds.). Essays on the English Language and Applied Linguistics on the Occasion of Gerhard Nickel's 60th Birthday . (Studies in Descriptive Linguistics, 18). Heidelberg: Groos, pp. 66-82
• 1993 "Subject and topic celebrities in German, English and Korean." In: M.Bonner / E.Braun / H.Fix (eds.). Neighborhoods. Festschrift for Max Mangold . (Contributions to the language in Saarland, 11). Saarbrücken: Saarbrücker Druckerei und Verlag, pp. 319–336
• 1997. “Supplementive adjective clauses in English.” In: R.Hickey / St.Puppel (eds.). Language History and Linguistic Modeling. A Festschrift for Jacek Fisiak on His 60th Birthday . (Trends in Linguistics, Studies and Monographs 101). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, p.1433-1451
• 2009. "Compound verbs." In: Günter Rohdenburg / Julia Schlüter (eds.). 2009. One language, two grammars? Differences between British and American English. (Studies in English Language) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 38-59

Web links

• Literature by and about Peter Erdmann in the catalog of the German National Library