Ralph Ludwig (Romanist)

Ralph Ludwig (born November 1, 1956 in Bielefeld ) is a German Romance studies scholar , linguist and university professor.

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Ludwig studied Romance studies at the University of Montpellier in Montpellier , then in Freiburg and Grenoble , followed by study visits to Málaga , Salamanca and Florence . He was a fellow of studienstiftung . In 1985 he received his doctorate in Freiburg on modality and mode in spoken French , which he examined using his own corpus materials . This was followed by a time as an assistant at the Romance Studies seminar at the University of Freiburg, initially as a member, then as a sub-project manager in the Collaborative Research Center 321 Orality and Writing. From 1986 he spent longer stays in the Caribbean , especially in Guadeloupe , Martinique and Dominica . As a result of these stays, he began his habilitation project on the writing of the French Creole languages . Corpus work also in the Seychelles and Mauritius completed his research. In 1992 the habilitation and the Venia legendi followed . Numerous field research and guest lectures took him to Mauritius, Martinique, Guadeloupe, Chile and Uruguay . He was visiting professor at the Université des Antilles et de la Guyane . In 1995, he received a call on the Chair of Romance Linguistics (focus French and Spanish ) at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg .

Ludwig is married to Florence Bruneau-Ludwig and has two children.

Mode between speaking and writing. In Ralph Ludwig: Modality and mode in spoken French. Gunter Narr Verlag, Tübingen 1988
Modality and mode in spoken French. Gunter Narr Verlag, Tübingen 1988
Creole languages between speaking and writing. On the syntax and pragmatics of Atlantic Creole languages based on French. ScriptOralia 86, Narr, Tübingen 1996

personal data
SURNAME	Ludwig, Ralph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Romance studies specialist, linguist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	November 1, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bielefeld