Einar Haugen
Einar Haugen ( born April 19, 1906 in Sioux City, Iowa; † 20 June 1994) was an American linguist.
School and education
Haugen was born in a colony of Norwegian immigrants. The first language he learned was Norwegian. English, he only learned in school. So bilingualism he learned from his own experience to know. Later, he wrote several books on this topic. In 1923, he was a high school. From 1924 to 1927 he attended Morningside College, Sioux City, Iowa. In 1928 he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. In 1929 he was awarded the academic degree of Master of Arts at the University of Illinois in Urbana, Illinois. In 1931, he presented his doctoral thesis, which is titled The New Norse Movement in Norway ( " The New Norwegian movement in Norway "). In 1932 he married Eva Lund.
Chairs
From 1931 to 1964 Einar Haugen was a professor of Scandinavian languages at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. From 1964 to 1975 he was a professor at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1975 he became Professor Emeritus. Between 1938 and 1982 he held several visiting professorships in North America, Europe and Australia.
Haugen's scientific work
Einar Haugen can be assigned to any particular linguistic school. Some works are marked structuralist, other works are traditional and vorstrukturalistisch. The transformational - generative currents of linguistics, he was skeptical. He has worked very data- oriented and based their theory primarily on these data.
The sociolinguistic aspects play an important role in his work. This manifests itself in its research priorities bilingualism, dialectology and language planning.
One of his most important works is The Scandinavian Languages . An Introduction to Their History, London and Cambridge (Massachusetts ), 1976.
Source
- Einar Haugen, The Scandinavian languages. An introduction to their history, Helmut Buske Verlag, Hamburg 1984, ISBN 3-87118-551-5 (from the afterword by the translator, Magnús Pétursson )