Rebecca Posner

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Rebecca Posner (born August 17, 1929 in Shotton , Durham , † July 19, 2018 ) was a British Romance philologist .

life and work

Posner began her studies in 1949 at Somerville College in Oxford and received her doctorate in 1958 under Alfred Ewert on Consonantal Dissimilation in the Romance Languages (Oxford 1961). From 1956 to 1957 she studied in Paris with André Martinet and André-Georges Haudricourt . In 1959 she was at Yale University. She taught from 1960 to 1963 at Girton College, Cambridge, from 1963 to 1965 as Professor of French Studies and Head of Department of Modern Languages ​​at the University of Ghana , from 1965 to 1978 as Reader in Linguistics at the University of York and finally from 1978 until her retirement in 1996 as Professor of Romance Languages ​​at Oxford, where she was also a Fellow at St Hugh's College. Since then she has carried out research at the Oxford University Center for Linguistics & Philology. From 1996 to 2000 she was chairman of the Philological Society .

Other works

  • The Romance languages. A linguistic introduction , New York 1966, Gloucester, Mass. 1970
  • (together with Iorgu Iordan and John Orr ) An introduction to Romance linguistics. Its schools and scholars, with a supplement: Thirty years on , by Rebecca Posner, Oxford 1970
  • On the Romance languages. An inaugural lecture delivered before the University of Oxford on June 5, 1980 , Oxford 1980
  • (Ed. Together with John Nigel Green) Romance comparative and historical linguistics , The Hague 1980 (Trends in Romance linguistics and philology 1)
  • (Ed. Together with John Nigel Green) Synchronic Romance linguistics , The Hague 1981 (Trends in Romance linguistics and philology 2)
  • (Ed. Together with John Nigel Green) Language and philology in Romance , The Hague 1982 (Trends in Romance linguistics and philology 3)
  • (Ed. Together with John Nigel Green) National and regional trends in Romance linguistics and philology , The Hague 1982 (Trends in Romance linguistics and philology 4)
  • (Ed. Together with John Nigel Green) Bilingualism and linguistic conflict in Romance , Berlin / New York 1993 (Trends in Romance linguistics and philology 5)
  • Romance Linguistics in Oxford 1840-1940, in: Lingua et Traditio. History of linguistics and recent philologies. Festschrift for Hans Helmut Christmann for his 65th birthday , ed. by Richard Baum, Klaus Böckle, Franz Josef Hausmann and Franz Lebsanft, Tübingen 1994, pp. 375–383
  • The Romance Languages , Cambridge 1996 (Spanish: Madrid 1998)
  • Linguistic Change in French , Oxford 1997

literature

  • John N. Green, Wendy Ayres-Bennett: Variation and change in French. Essays presented to Rebecca Posner on the occasion of her sixtieth birthday. London 1990 (with biography and list of publications).
  • Rebecca Posner: Je ne regrette rien. In: Paths in Linguistics. Forty-four autobiographical accounts. Festschrift for Mario Wandruszka , Tübingen 1991, pp. 187–191.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary. In: philsoc.org.uk. July 28, 2018, accessed July 30, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Posner, Rebecca
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Romance philologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 17, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Shotton , Durham
DATE OF DEATH 19th July 2018