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German linguist
Marga Reis
BornJune 18, 1941
Aschaffenburg, Germany
Academic background
Alma materLudwig Maximilian University of Munich (PhD)
Academic work
DisciplineGerman
Sub-disciplineLatin philology, logic and theory of science
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Marga Reis is a linguist and emerita professor of German Linguistics at the University of Tübingen. Her research interests are the grammar of present-day and diachronic German linguistics, with a focus on syntax, word formation, and the relationship between grammar and pragmatics.

Biography

Reis received an MA in Latin philology from Bryn Mawr College in 1965, and earned a PhD in German at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in 1970 with a dissertation entitled "Phonological theory and historical phonology. Studies of lengthening and shortening processes in German." ('Lauttheorie und Lautgeschichte. Untersuchungen am Beispiel der Dehnungs- und Kürzungsvorgänge im Deutschen'). In 1975, she completed a habilitation in German Philology at LMU Munich with "Presuppositions and Syntax" ('Präsuppositionen und Syntax').

Reis held positions as professor of German Linguistics at the university of Cologne (from 1975-1984) and the University of Tübingen (from 1984-2009). Since 2009, she is emerita professor at the University of Tübingen. Reis additionally held many visiting positions, including at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1972-1973), Université de Paris VIII (1979-1980, 1982-1983), and the Centre General Linguistics (ZAS) in Berlin, Germany (1999-2000).

Awards

In 2010, Reis was named Honorary Professor at the Institute for German Language and Linguistics at the Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany. In 2016, Reis was awarded the Wilhelm von Humboldt Prize for lifetime achievement in Germany.

Selected publications

  • Reis, Marga; Rosengren, Inger (1992). "What do Wh-imperatives tell us about Wh-movement?". Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. 10 (1): 79–118. doi:10.1007/BF00135359.
  • Reis, M (1997). "A modular approach to the grammar of additive particles: the case of German Auch". Journal of Semantics. 14 (3): 237–309. doi:10.1093/jos/14.3.237.
  • Kesper, Stephan; Reis, Marga, eds. (2005). Linguistic Evidence. De Gruyter Mouton. ISBN 978-3-11-019754-9.
  • Reis, Marga; Wöllstein, Angelika (June 2010). "Zur Grammatik (vor allem) konditionaler V1-Gefüge im Deutschen". Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft. 29 (1): 111–179. doi:10.1515/zfsw.2010.004.
  • Beck, Sigrid; Reis, Marga (21 August 2018). "On the Form and Interpretation of Echo Wh-Questions". Journal of Semantics. 35 (3): 369–408. doi:10.1093/jos/ffy002.

References

  1. "Germanistenverzeichnis: Marga Reis". www.germanistenverzeichnis.phil.uni-erlangen.de. Retrieved 10 March 2024.
  2. Hinderling, Robert (1982). "Review of Lauttheorie und Lautgeschichte. Untersuchungen am Beispiel der Dehnungs- und Kürzungsvorgänge im Deutschen". Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum und deutsche Literatur. 111 (1): 5–12. ISSN 0044-2518. Retrieved 10 March 2024.
  3. "Reis | Universität Tübingen". uni-tuebingen.de. Retrieved 10 March 2024.
  4. Auwera, Johan van der (1981). "Reis (Marga). Präsuppositionen und Syntax". Revue belge de Philologie et d'Histoire. 59 (3): 698–700. Retrieved 10 March 2024.
  5. "Prof. Dr. Marga Reis". Institut für Linguistik (in German). Retrieved 10 March 2024.
  6. "DGfS vergibt Wilhelm von Humboldt-Preis für ihr Lebenswerk 2016 an Marga Reis | University of Tübingen". uni-tuebingen.de. Retrieved 10 March 2024.
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