Ernst Pulgram

Ernst Pulgram ( born September 18, 1915 in Vienna, † August 17 2005 in Ireland) was an American Indo-Europeanist, Romanist and linguist of Austrian origin.

Life and work

Pulgram studied in Vienna. After the Anschluss he fled to Switzerland and from there went to the United States. He took two years of military service, acquired in 1943, the U.S. nationality, studied at Harvard University and a Ph.D. in 1946 ibid with the work The theory of proper names.

From 1948 to 1986 he taught at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, first as an Assistant Professor, from 1951 as Associate Professor, in 1956 as a full professor and from 1979 as Hayward Keniston Distinguished Professor of Romance and Classical Linguistics. Along with Lawrence Bayard Kiddle he built from the Romance languages ​​and founded in 1949 the first language laboratory.

In 1954, Pulgram a Guggenheim Fellowship. He was 1978-1979 President of the Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States ( LACUS ).

Pulgram was honorary doctorate from the University of Vienna.

Works

  • Applied linguistics in language teaching, Washington, DC 1954
  • (Ed. ), Studies presented to Joshua Whatmough [ 1897-1964 ] on his sixtieth birthday, The Hague 1957
  • Introduction to the spectrography of speech, The Hague 1959, 1964
  • Syllable, word, nexus, cursus, The Hague, 1970
  • Latin - Romance phonology. Prosodics and metrics, Munich 1975
  • Italic, Latin, Italian 600 B.C. to A.D. 1260th Texts and commentaries, Heidelberg 1978
  • (Ed.) Romanitas. Studies in romance linguistics, Ann Arbor (Mich. ) 1984
  • Practicing linguist. Essays on language and languages ​​1950-1985, 2 vols, Heidelberg 1986-1988
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