Guy Deutscher (linguist)

German Guy (born 1969 in Tel Aviv) is an Israeli linguist.

Life and work

German et al studied linguistics and mathematics at Cambridge University, where he completed his studies with a doctorate. Then he searched for some time at St. John 's College on ancient language structures.

German was a Fellow at Leiden University and returned after some time back to the UK. Currently (2010) teaches German as Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Manchester.

Writings

As author

  • Language as a mirror. How are the characteristics of a language together with the community of its speakers? In: Brain and mind. The Magazine of Psychology and Brain Research, vol 10 (2010 ), pp. 38-42, ISSN 1618-8519
  • On the mechanisms of morphological change. In: Folia linguistica historica, vol 22 (2001 ), Issue 1/2, pp. 41-48, ISSN 0168 - 647X
  • Why the world looks different in other languages ​​. In: Susanne Luedtke (ed.): German in the Sciences. Contributions to status and perspectives of scientific language German. Velcro Langenscheidt, Munich, 2013, ISBN 978-3-12-606919-9, pp. 8-15.
  • Syntactic Change in Akkadian. The Evolution of sentential complementation. University Press, Oxford 2000, ISBN 0-19-829988-5 (English).
  • The Unfolding of Language. The evolution of mankind 's Greatest Invention Arrow Books, London 2006, ISBN 0-09-946025-4 (EA London 2005) You Jane, I Goethe. A history of the language. Dtv, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-423-34655-9 (EA Munich 2008, translated by Martin Pfeiffer).
  • In the mirror of language. Why the world looks different in other languages ​​. 4th Ed Beck, Munich, 2012, ISBN 978-3-406-60689-2 (EA Munich 2010, translated by Martin Pfeiffer).

As editor

  • With NJC Kouwenberg: The Akkadian Language in its Semitic Context. Studies in the Akkadian of the third and second millennium BC. Nederlands Instituut voor het Oosten Nabije, Leiden 2006, ISBN 978-90-6258-317-1 ( conference proceedings, English).
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