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Hans Marchand

Hans Marchand (Krefeld, 1 October 1907 – Genoa, 13 December 1978[1]) was a German linguist. He studied Romance languages, English and Latin, and after fleeing Germany in 1934[2] was a lecturer of linguistics at Istanbul, Yale University, and Bard College. From 1957 to 1973 he was a professor at the University of Tübingen.[1]

Marchand published works on linguistic phenomena occurring in languages such as English, French, Turkish and Italian,[3] but became famous in his discipline for his theories on word-formation in the English language. Linguists following his approach are called Marchandeans.[4]

Marchand wrote much of what would become The Categories and Types of Present-Day English Word-Formation (1960) "while in internal exile in Turkey in an Anatolian village from 1944 to 1945, under threat of repatriation to Germany".[2] Decades after the publication in 1969 of the second, greatly expanded (and much more widely cited) edition, it was still being cited approvingly in the morphology literature: "has remained the authoritative description of English word-formation",[2] a "meticulous volume",[5] a "milestone monograph",[6] a "monumental volume . . . likely to continue to be widely used as a reference book".[7]

Publications

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  • The Categories and Types of Present-Day English Word-Formation. A Synchronic-Diachronic Approach. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1960. At the Internet Archive.

References

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  1. ^ a b Maas, Utz. "Hans Marchand". Verfolgung und Auswanderung deutschsprachiger Sprachforscher 1933–1945.
  2. ^ a b c Aronoff, Mark. "Morphology and words: A memoir". In Bonami, Olivier; Boyé, Gilles; Dal, Georgette; Giraudo, Hélène; Namer, Fiammetta (eds.). The Lexeme in Descriptive and Theoretical Morphology. Empirically Oriented Theoretical Morphology and Syntax. Berlin: Language Science Press. p. 9. doi:10.5281/zenodo.1406987. ISBN 978-3-96110-110-8.
  3. ^ Brekle, H. E.; Kastovsky, D.; Lipka, L.; Stein, G. (1979). "Hans Marchand †" (PDF). Anglia: Zeitschrift für englische Philologie (in German). 97: 287–289. doi:10.1515/angl.1979.1979.97.287 – via University of Regensburg.
  4. ^ Štekauer, Pavol; Lieber, Rochelle (2005). Handbook of word-formation. Dordrecht: Springer. pp. 99f. ISBN 1-4020-3597-7.
  5. ^ Dixon, R.M.W. (2014). Making new words: Morphological derivation in English. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. ix. ISBN 978-0-19-871237-4.
  6. ^ Bauer, Laurie; Lieber, Rochelle; Plag, Ingo (2013). The Oxford reference guide to English morphology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 3. ISBN 978-0-19-957926-6.
  7. ^ Schmid, Hans-Jörg (2016). English morphology and word-formation: An introduction. Grundlagen der Anglistik und Amerikanistik 25 (3rd ed.). Berlin: Erich Schmidt. p. 16. ISBN 978-3-503-17012-8.

Further reading

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  • Štekauer, Pavol. English word formation: A history of research, 1960–1995. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2000. ISBN 3-8233-5210-5. See particularly chapter 1, "Hans Marchand" (pp. 29–48). Available at Google Books.