Peter Wunderli

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Peter Franz Albert Wunderli (born May 30, 1938 in Zurich ; † March 27, 2019 in Biel ) was a Swiss Romance studies and linguist.

life and work

Peter Wunderli studied Romance and English in Zurich , Aix-en-Provence , Rome and Oxford . a. with Reto R. Bezzola , Georges Poulet , Konrad Huber , Gerold Hilty and Heinrich Schmid . He received his doctorate under Gerold Hilty in 1963. Until 1967 he worked as an assistant at the University of Zurich and then as a teacher for French and Italian teachers at the Winterthur Cantonal School . In 1968 he completed his habilitation in Zurich.

In 1970 he was offered the professorship for Romance studies at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg , in 1976 he switched to the Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf , where he taught until his retirement in 2003. Since 1998 he has been a full member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences .

His main areas of research were the work of Ferdinand de Saussure , intonation research and Central French .

Wunderli led investigations into the French Subjonctif through, but was referring to the Spanish subjunctive and the Italian congiuntivo in his reflections with one. For him, the subjunctive is the "mode of partial update" which was shown in the following hierarchy:

  • Infinitive so semantem plus indication of verb; as a zero update
  • Participle so semantem plus indication of verb plus (action status) Accompli / Accomplissement; as a minimal update
  • Subjunctive therefore semantem plus indication of verb plus (action status) Accompli / Accomplissement plus personnel structure; as a partial update
  • Indicative therefore semantem plus indication of verb plus (action status) Accompli / Accomplissement plus personnel structure plus tense structure; as a full update

He differentiates between four levels of verbal updating, with each higher level being given a feature. Wunderli understands the “action stand” to mean the contrast between deformations that express the development of a process (Accomplissement) and those that mark its development (Accompli).

Publications (selection)

  • Modus and tense. Contributions to the synchronic and diachronic morphosyntax of the Romance languages. Fool Francke Attempto, Tübingen 1976
  • The partial updating of verbal events (Subjonctif) in Central French is a syntactic-stylistic study. De Gruyter, Berlin 1970
  • The subjunctive after "après que": critical balance and attempt at synthesis. Vox Romanica Volume (Year): 29 (1970), pp. 230-263
  • as editor: The sick person in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Düsseldorf 1986 (= Studia humaniora , 5).
  • as Ed .: Origin and Origin. Historical and mythical forms of legitimation. Files from the Gerda Henkel Colloquium, organized by the Research Institute for Medieval and Renaissance [...] at the University of Düsseldorf, October 13-15, 1991. Jan Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1994.
  • with Iwar Werlen and Matthias Grünert (eds.): Italica - Raetica - Gallica. Studia linguarum litterarum artiumque in honorem Ricarda Liver . Tübingen and Basel 2001.

literature

  • Edeltraud Werner u. a. (Ed.): Et multum et multa. Festschrift for Peter Wunderli on his 60th birthday . Narr, Tübingen 1998, ISBN 3-8233-5106-0 (list of publications pp. XIX – XLIV).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prof. Dr. Peter Wunderli passed away. Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, April 4, 2019, accessed on April 4, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Peter Wunderli: Modus and Tempus. Contributions to the synchronic and diachronic morphosyntax of the Romance languages. Narr Francke Attempto, Tübingen 1976, p. 11
  3. ↑ is that part of a word which, in contrast to the morpheme, has the lexical meaning.
  4. ↑ Martin Hummel : The basic value of the Spanish subjunctive. Narr Francke Attempto, Tübingen 2001, ISBN 3-8233-5125-7 , p. 29.
  5. ↑ Werner Besch (Hrsg.): Language history. Teilbd. 3, Volume 2, Part 3, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-1101-5883-3 , p. 2509
personal data
SURNAME Wunderli, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wunderli, Peter Franz Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Romance Studies
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 2019
Place of death Biel