Edmund Gussmann
Born(1945-01-27)27 January 1945
Lubichowo, Poland
Died2 September 2010(2010-09-02) (aged 65)
Gdynia, Poland
Academic work
DisciplineLinguist

Edmund Gussmann (27 January 1945 – 2 September 2010)[1] was a Polish linguist, phonologist, English philologist, Icelandist, and celtologist.

Career

He graduated in English Philology from the University of Warsaw in 1968. In the years 1968–1970 he also studied Icelandic and Germanic linguistics at the University of Reykjavik. In 1970, he joined the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, where in 1973 he defended his doctorate, and in 1978 he obtained his habilitation. In the years 1979–1980 he was the Director of the Institute of English Studies at UMCS. In 1981 he became the director of the Institute of English Philology at the Catholic University of Lublin. It was then that he obtained the degree of associate professor. In 1985 he became an associate professor, and in 1992 - a full professor.[1][2][3]

Works

  • 1978 – Contrastive Polish-English Consonantal Phonology (Wyd. PWN)
  • 1980 – Studies in Abstract Phonology (Wyd. MIT Press)
  • 1980 – Introduction to Phonological Analysis (Wyd. PWN)
  • 1985 (Red.) – Phono-morphology : Studies in the Interaction of Phonology and Morphology (Wyd. RW KUL)
  • 1987 (Red.) – Rules and the Lexicon : Studies in Word-formation (Wyd. RW KUL)
  • 1991 (z Aidanem Doyle'em) – An Ghaeilge : podręcznik do nauki języka irlandzkiego (Wyd. RW KUL)
  • 1995 (Red.) – Licensing in Syntax and Phonology (Wyd. Folium)
  • 2002 – Phonology: analysis and theory (Wyd. Cambridge University Press)
  • 2004 A Reverse Dictionary of Modern Irish (Wyd. Folium)
  • 2006 – Icelandic and Universal Phonology (Wyd. Bruno-Kress-Vorlesung 2005)
  • 2007 – The Phonology of Polish (Wyd. Oxford University Press)

References

  1. 1 2 "Linguist made study of Irish compulsory at Polish university". The Irish Times. 25 September 2010. Archived from the original on 19 October 2022.
  2. ↑ Mac Mathúna, Séamus (2010). "Professor Edmund Gussmann (1945–2010)" (PDF). Studia Celto-Slavica. 5: 193–194. doi:10.54586/ILPN1643. Archived (PDF) from the original on 24 February 2022.
  3. ↑ Mac Mathúna, Séamus; Stalmaszczyk, Piotr (2011). "Professor Edmund Gussmann (27.01.1945–2.09.2010)" (PDF). Studies in Polish Linguistics. 6: 5–6. Archived (PDF) from the original on 7 July 2022.
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