Wolf Dietrich (Romanist)

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Wolf Dietrich (born October 9, 1940 in Mülheim an der Ruhr ) is a German linguist with a focus on the Romance languages but also the languages ​​of the indigenous peoples of America. He was a university professor, most recently at the University of Münster .

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Wolf Dietrich graduated from high school in Quakenbrück in 1961 . This was followed by studies at the Universities of Münster and Munich from 1961 to 1962, then in Montpellier from 1962 to 1963 and finally at the University of Tübingen from 1963 to 1967. In Tübingen he passed his 1st state examination in French and Latin and was there in 1971 with a dissertation supervised by Eugenio Coseriu as "doctor philosophiae". From 1971 to 1973 he worked as a research assistant at the University of Tübingen.

This was later followed by a habilitation and a visiting professorship at the University of Navarra in Pamplona . After his stay in Spain , he was appointed full professor of Romance philology . In the 1973/74 winter semester, Dietrich was appointed to the chair for Romance Linguistics at the University of Münster. His academic interests include Romance linguistics, linguistics of the indigenous languages ​​of the South American lowlands , linguistics of the Tupi-Guaraní languages , as well as general grammar, word formation, syntax , semantics , historical-comparative linguistics and variety linguistics .

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  • The periphrastic verbal aspect in the Romance languages. Investigations into today's Romance verbal system and the problem of the origin of the periphrastic verbal aspect . Niemeyer, Tübingen 1973 (as a dissertation in 1971 and as a habilitation thesis in 1973).
  • Bibliografia da língua portuguesa do Brasil . Niemeyer, Tübingen 1980.
  • More evidence for an internal classification of Tupi-Guarani languages . Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-7861-1606-7 .
  • O português do Brasil. Perspectivas da pesquisa atual . Vervuert, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-86527-109-X .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilfried Kürschner: Linguist Handbook. Volume 2, Gunter Narr Verlag, Tübingen 1997, ISBN 3-8233-5001-3 , pp. 163-164
  2. ↑ Wolf Dietrich: My life as a linguist - in Romance studies and beyond . In Klaus Dieter Ertler (ed.): Romance studies as a passion. Great moments in recent history specialist V . Vienna 2018.
  3. ↑ History of the Romance Seminar. Westphalian University of Münster
personal data
SURNAME Dietrich, Wolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Romanist; linguist
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Mülheim an der Ruhr