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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, May 17, 2024 1:27:40 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> LINGTYP@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG <LINGTYP@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Lingtyp] Obituary: Johannes Helmbrecht</font>
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<div class="PlainText">Dear Colleagues,<br>
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It is with great sadness that we have to inform you that Johannes Helmbrecht<br>
passed away on 5 May 2024 after short but serious illness. Johannes was still<br>
organizing a workshop at the upcoming ALT conference, and it is very shocking<br>
how suddenly he left us.<br>
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Johannes made significant contributions to linguistic typology. Throughout his<br>
career he remained fascinated by the ways person markers develop and change in<br>
the world’s languages. This was the topic of his habilitation as well as of a<br>
number of articles in various of our discipline’s journals. Fieldwork and<br>
language description were also a topic close to his heart. After an initial<br>
focus on the languages of the Caucasus during his student days in Bonn, the<br>
Siouan languages became his main specialization. Having made contact with the<br>
Hooc¹k community during a stay at Chicago, he later initiated and carried out a<br>
documentation project on the language. Up to his untimely death, he continued<br>
working on the grammatical description of Hooc¹k. In recent years, much of his<br>
research was directed towards the grammatical properties of proper nouns,<br>
especially personal names, in the languages of the world.<br>
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Johannes had been Chair of General and Comparative Linguistics at the<br>
University of Regensburg since 2007. His PhD was awarded from the University of<br>
Bonn, and he spent time as a researcher at the University of Chicago, at the<br>
University of Cologne, and at the University of Erfurt, where he wrote his<br>
Habilitation under Prof. Christian Lehmann.<br>
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Until the very end, Johannes was a dedicated supervisor, researcher, lecturer<br>
and colleague. His friendly and warm-hearted manner and his great willingness<br>
to help and support others were greatly appreciated by his staff, colleagues<br>
and students. We all will miss him very much.<br>
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Information on how to sign the condolence book (including a link to a digital<br>
version) can be found on the website of the Regensburg linguistics department:<br>
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Our thoughts are with Johannes’ wife and family.<br>
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Corinna Handschuh,<br>
Linda Konnerth,<br>
Iren Hartmann<br>
and Bruno Olsson<br>
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