32.545, All: Ulrich Detges (1958-2021)

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Subject: 32.545, All: Ulrich Detges (1958-2021)

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Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2021 08:36:25
From: Richard Waltereit [richard.waltereit at hu-berlin.de]
Subject: Ulrich Detges (1958-2021)

 
Ulrich (Uli) Detges, professor of Romance linguistics at the University of
Munich, died of a long illness on 7 February 2021.

He was born in Krefeld, West Germany, in 1958. He studied French and History
at the Free University of Berlin from 1977 to 1985. Subsequently, he won
scholarships to study at the École Normale Supérieure rue d’Ulm in Paris and
at the University of Laval in Québec. He then did his PhD with Thomas Kotschi
at the Free University, and defended it with highest honours in 1992. From
1994 to 1996 he completed the Berlin teacher training programme. In 1996 he
was appointed by the University of Tübingen for an assistant professor
position. In 2001 he was awarded the habilitation (higher doctorate) at that
university. In 2003 he went to the University of Munich for a chair in Romance
linguistics, a position that he held until the end.

His PhD thesis was an analysis of French complex predicates like ‘mettre en
relief’, based on the assumption that these are nominal predicates. It was
published with Niemeyer in 1996.  This work later served as the theoretical
basis for a dictionary of French nominal predicate that he co-authored with
Colette Cortès and Thomas Kotschi, and published in 2009 with Narr.

>From his time in Tübingen onwards, he developed a theory of grammaticalization
based on the hypothesis that grammatical formatives are the residue of
rhetorical over-use of their lexical source constructions. He substantiated
this hypothesis in historical corpus work for a significant number of
constructions in French, Spanish, Catalan, and other languages. This was the
topic of his habilitation thesis. His work was published in journals like
Studies in Language, Catalan Journal of Linguistics, Language Sciences,
Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, Linguistics, Romanistisches Jahrbuch, Open
Linguistics, and many other venues.
Uli was on the editorial board of Revue Romane and he co-edited the Grundlagen
der Romanistik series with Erich Schmidt Verlag.

For five years, he was the Study Dean of his Faculty. To those who knew him
personally, he was much fun to be with; his sharp mind and his friendly and
deeply humane humour were much appreciated in conversation.
 


Linguistic Field(s): Discipline of Linguistics



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