Sascha W. Felix

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Sascha Walter Felix (born April 29, 1945 in Bielefeld ; † January 4, 2012 in Bendestorf ) was a German linguist .

Life

Felix grew up bilingually in Denver , Colorado. He later acquired Japanese language skills and was active in the German-Japanese society . After graduating from high school in Bielefeld, Felix studied English, Romance studies and Japanese studies in Hamburg and Freiburg im Breisgau, where he passed the first state examination in 1969. Felix received his doctorate in 1972 at the University of Kiel and was a research assistant there from 1970 to 1977. He completed his habilitation in 1977 and received a professorship for didactics of the English language and literature in Kiel. From the founding of the University of Passau in 1978, he held the chair for general linguistics and was initially dean of the faculty of language and literature until 1981. Most recently he was retired. Felix was temporarily elected representative in the German Society for Linguistics .

In addition to his teaching activities, he developed the flight planning software FlightSim Commander for the Microsoft Flight Simulator together with Volker Heine .

Fonts (selection)

  • Syntactic analysis of English verbal groups . University of Kiel, Philos. Fak., Diss. 1972 (1973).
  • Linguistic research on natural second language acquisition . Fink, Munich 1978.
  • Psycholinguistic aspects of second language acquisition . Narr, Tübingen 1982.
  • Language development at the crossroads . Narr, Tübingen 1983.
  • (with Gisbert Fanselow ) Theory of Language . Francke, Tübingen 1987.
  • Language and knowledge . West German publishing house, Opladen 1990.
  • Cognitive linguistics . West German publishing house, Opladen 1994.
  • Theta parametrization. Predicate Argument Structure in English and Japanese . Hamburg: Collaborative Research Center 538, Univ. Hamburg, 2000 (work on multilingualism: Part B; 14).
  • Fukushima. The west and the culture of Japan. LIT Verlag, Berlin 2012.

literature

  • Wilfried Kürschner: Linguisten-Handbuch: biographical and bibliographical data of German-speaking linguists of the present , Tübingen: Narr 1994 ISBN 3-8233-5000-5 , p. 222

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Part of Dagmar Felix in the Hamburger Abendblatt on January 7, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Felix, Sascha W.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Felix, Sascha Walter (full name); Felix, Sascha
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German linguist
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Bielefeld
DATE OF DEATH 4th January 2012
Place of death Bendestorf