Prof. Dr. Phil. Thomas
Herbert Stolz
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Ad Personam
Office: University Bremen
FB 10: Linguistics
PF 33 04 40
28334 D-Bremen
Tel.: ++49-(0)421/218 7565, 218 3265, 218 4993
Fax: ++49-(0)421/218 7801
e-mail: stolz@uni-bremen.de
Private: Kopernikusstr. 62, 28357 Bremen, Tel.: 0421/2768219
Born: 14.07.1957 in Dortmund/Germany
Citizenship: German
Parents: Heinrich Stolz, Marianne Stolz, née Falk
Marital status: married to Dr. Christel Stolz M.A., née Goldap
/ daughter Alma
Professional status: Full Professor (Chair) |
Curriculum
Vitae (English) |
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Education
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| School: |
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| 1964-1968 |
Elementary School in Dortmund |
| 1968-1977 |
Grammar School in Dortmund, Abitur/Exams 1977 |
| University: |
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| 1977-1985 |
Ruhr-University Bochum,
PhD-Program:
General and Comparative Linguistics,
Scandinavian Languages,
Modern History,
Romance Languages
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| 1980-1981 |
DAAD-grant at Università degli Studi di Lecce (Italy) |
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Language courses:
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| 1979 |
Rome |
| 1980 |
Rome, Bucarest, Siena |
| 1987 |
Akranes (Iceland) |
| 1991 |
Reykjavík (Iceland) |
| Exams: |
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| 25.06.1985 |
PhD Ruhr-University Bochum.
Grades: summa cum laude.
Title of PhD-Thesis: "Gibt es das kreolische Sprachwandelmodell?
Vergleichende Grammatik des Negerholländischen"
(Is there any such thing as a Creole model of language change?
Comparative grammar of Negro-Dutch)
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| 16.01.1991 |
Habilitation in General and Comparative Linguistics Ruhr-University
Bochum.
Title of Habilitation: "Sekundäre Flexionsbildung – Versuch
über die Zielgerichtetheit im Sprachwandel"
(Secondary development of inflexion. A treatise of the unidirectionality
of language change)
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| Professional career |
| 1980 |
Student assistant Dept. of Modern History and Dept. of Linguistics Ruhr-
University of Bochum. |
| 1982-1985 |
Student assistant Dept. of Applied Linguistics Ruhr-University of Bochum
and Dept. of Linguistics and Communication University of Essen. |
| 1990 |
Post-graduate assistant Dept. of English Linguistics University of Essen
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| 1990-1991 |
Assistant professor Dept. of English Linguistics University of Essen
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| 1991 |
Karl-Brugmann-Fellowship Dept. of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
University of Leipzig |
| 1991-1997 |
Non-salaried professor ("Privatdozent") for Linguistics
Ruhr-University of Bochum
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| 1995 |
Visiting scholar at FAS (Institute for General Linguistics) in Berlin |
| 1995 |
Visiting scholar at the Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics in
Nijmegen / Netherlands
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| 1995-1998 |
Fill-in professorship for Linguistics University of Bremen |
| 01.04.1998- |
Full professor (Chair) for Linguistics University of Bremen
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| Grants |
| 1986-1988 |
Post-graduate program DFG (German Science Foundation) |
| 1988-1990 |
Habilitation-grant DFG |
| 1991-1995 |
Heisenberg-grant DFG |
| Prizes |
| 1985 |
Prize winner ("Best PhD-thesis of the year") Ruhr-University
of Bochum |
| 1995 |
Prize winner ("Best statewide Habilitation of the year")
Academy of Sciences of Nordrhine-Westphalia |
| Member of |
| (a) |
Societas Linguistica Europea |
| (b) |
Deutscher Romanistenverband (Association of German Romance Studies) |
| (c) |
Indogermanische Gesellschaft (Association of Indo-European Studies) |
| (d) |
Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas |
| (e) |
Association for Linguistic Typology
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| (f) |
DFF
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| (g) |
Deutsch-Maltesische Gesellschaft |
| (h) |
Förderverein des SKSK |
| Other academic
activities |
| 1984 |
Co-organizer Essen-Colloquium on Language Change and Language Contact |
| 1985–2001 |
Co-editor of "Bochum-Essener Beiträge zur Sprachwandelforschung"
(Bochum-Essen Contributions to the Study of Language Change |
| 1989–1990 |
Member of the advisory board of "Papia – Revista de crioulos de
base ibérica" (Brasilien) (Journal of Ibero-Romance-based
Creole languages)
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| 1990–1993 |
Associate colaborator in the project "Grammaticalization in African
Languages"
Institute of African Studies, University of Cologne (Director
Prof. Dr. Heine)
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| 1991–1992 |
Associate colaborator in the project "Descriptive Grammar of Yucatec
Maya"
Dept. of Linguistics and Literature, University of Bielefeld (Director
Prof. Dr. Lehrmann)
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| 1991–1993 |
Member of the editorial board of "Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung"
(Journal Language Typology and Universals Research) |
| 1991–1994 |
Director of the sub-project "Grammaticalization of body-part nouns"
within the project "Principles of language change" (Director
Prof. Dr. Enninger)
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| 1995–2001 |
Director of the project "Encyclopedia of Comitatives and Instrumentals"
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| 1999– |
Editor-in-chief of "Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung" |
| 2001– |
Editor of the series "Studia Typologica" |
| 2002– |
Editor of the series "Diversitas Linguarum" |
| 2002–2004 |
Director of the DFG project "Alienability in Europe" |
| Fieldwork |
| 4.-5.1992 |
Iceland |
| 9.-11.1993 |
Yucatan |
| 4.-7.1994 |
Yucatan |
| 9.-10.1996 |
Yucatan |
| 8.-9.1997 |
Malta
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| 3.-4.1999 |
Malta |
| 8.-9.2000 |
Malta |
| Shortlists |
| 1991 |
Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (General Linguistics), Munich |
| 1994 |
Sprachen Nordeuropas und des Baltikums (Languages of Northern Europe
and the Baltic Region), Mainz |
| 1995 |
Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft (General and Comparative
Linguistics), Rostock |
| 1996 |
Linguistik (Linguistics), Bremen |
| 1998 |
Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft/Universelle Linguistik (General and
Universal Linguistics), Bochum |