Hans Marchand Explained

Hans Marchand (Krefeld, 1 October 1907 – Genoa, 13 December 1978^[1]) was a German linguist. He studied Romance languages, English and Latin, and after fleeing Germany during the Third Reich was a lecturer of linguistics at Istanbul, Yale University, and Bard College. From 1957 to 1973 he was a professor at the University of Tübingen.

Marchand published works on linguistic phenomena occurring in languages such as English, French, Turkish and Italian,^[2] but became famous in his discipline for his theories on word-formation in the English language. Linguists following his approach are called Marchandeans.^[3]

Decades after the publication in 1969 of the second (and much more widely cited) edition of Marchand's The Categories and Types of Present-Day English Word-Formation, it was still being cited approvingly in the morphology literature: a "meticulous volume",^[4] a "milestone monograph",^[5] a "monumental volume . . . likely to continue to be widely used as a reference book".^[6]

Publications

• The Categories and Types of Present-Day English Word-Formation. A Synchronic-Diachronic Approach. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1960. 2nd edition, Handbücher das Studium der Anglistik. Munich: C. H. Beck, 1969.

References

1. Web site: Utz . Maas . Verfolgung und Auswanderung deutschsprachiger Sprachforscher 1933–1945 . Hans Marchand .
2. Anglia – Zeitschrift für englische Philologie . 97 . 1979 . H. E. . Brekle . Herbert E. Brekle . D. . Kastovsky . L. . Lipka . G. . Stein . Hans Marchand † . University of Regensburg . 287–289 . de.
3. Book: Štekauer . Pavol . Handbook of word-formation . 2005 . Springer . Dordrecht . 1-4020-3597-7 . 99f . Rochelle . Lieber . Rochelle Lieber.
4. Book: Dixon, R.M.W. . Robert M. W. Dixon

   . Robert M. W. Dixon . Making new words: Morphological derivation in English . Oxford . Oxford University Press . 2014 . 978-0-19-871237-4 . ix.

5. Book: Laurie . Bauer . Laurie Bauer . Rochelle . Lieber . Rochelle Lieber . Ingo . Plag . Ingo Plag . The Oxford reference guide to English morphology . The Oxford Reference Guide to English Morphology . Oxford . Oxford University Press . 2013 . 978-0-19-957926-6 . 3.
6. Book: Schmid, Hans-Jörg . English morphology and word-formation: An introduction . 3rd . Grundlagen der Anglistik und Amerikanistik 25 . Berlin . Erich Schmidt . 2016 . 978-3-503-17012-8 . 16.

Further reading

• Štekauer, Pavol. English word formation: A history of research, 1960–1995. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2000. . See particularly chapter 1, "Hans Marchand" (pp. 29–48). Available at Google Books.