Eugenio Coșeriu

Eugenio Coseriu (actually Romanian Eugen Coseriu [ eudʒen koʃer ʲ u]; born July 27, 1921 in Mihăileni, back in Romania, now in the Republic of Moldova; † 7 September 2002 in Tübingen) was a Romanist and General linguist at the University of Tübingen.

Coseriu studied in 1939 and 1940 at the University of Iaşi and continued his studies in 1940 using a grant from the Italian Cultural Institute in Rome continued. There he received his doctorate in 1944 on the influence of French and Italian medieval poetry to the South Slavic poetry. 1944 and 1945 he was at the University of Padua, and from 1945 to 1949 at the University of Milan. From 1950 to 1963 he was a professor at the University of Montevideo in Uruguay. Between 1961 and 1963 he was a visiting professor at the University of Bonn. From 1963 until the end of his life he worked at the University of Tübingen.

His research interests were language change, Semantics and causes socially justified language variants. Coseriu also dealt with the structure of the language and the language features as levels of competence.

Fundamental to Coseriu language theory have included Aristotle, Wilhelm von Humboldt and Ferdinand de Saussure.

Works (selection)

  • Eugeniu Coseriu, Teoria del lenguaje y linguistica general, Madrid, 1973
  • Eugeniu Coseriu, Sincronia, diacronia e historia, Madrid, 1973
  • Eugeniu Coseriu, Principos de semantica estructural, Madrid, 1978.
  • Eugeniu Coseriu, El hombre y su lenguaje, Madrid, 1977.
  • Eugeniu Coseriu, Tradicional y en la ciencia del novedad languaje, Madrid, 1977.
  • Eugeniu Coseriu, Lecţii de lingvistică generală, Chişinău, ARC Publishing House, 2000.
  • Eugeniu Coseriu, " Limbaj şi politica ", in Revista de lingvistică şi StiinTa literara, 5/ 1996.
  • Eugeniu Coseriu, " Latinitatea Orientala " in Limba Română este patria mea. Studii. Comunicari. Documents, Chişinău, 1996, p. 15-31,
  • Eugeniu Coseriu, " Unitatea limbii române - planuri şi criterii ". Ibidem. p. 205-121.
  • Eugeniu Coseriu and Horst Geckeler. Trends in structural semantics. ( Tübingen contributions to linguistics, 158). Tübingen: Narr. In 1981.
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