Jost Gippert: Our Featured Linguist!

"Buenos dias", "buenas noches" -- this was the first words in a foreign language I heard in my life, as a three-year old boy growing up in developing post-war Western Germany, where the first gastarbeiters had arrived from Spain. Fascinated by the strange sounds, I tried to get to know some more languages, the only opportunity being TV courses of English and French -- there was no foreign language education for pre-teen school children in Germany yet in those days. Read more

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Name:	Andreas  Willi
Institution:	Universität Basel
Selected Publications:
Announced on LINGUIST :	The Language of Greek Comedy  The Languages of Aristophanes
Dissertation Director * of:	Towards a Computer Model of the Historical Phonology and Morphology of Latin (Philip Roberts, Author)
Dissertation Director * of:	The Syntax and Semantics of Tense-Aspect Stem Participles in Early Rgvedic Sanskrit (John Lowe, Author)
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