| Marga Reis | |
| Birth Date: | June 18, 1941 |
| Birth Place: | Aschaffenburg, Germany |
| Alma Mater: | Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (PhD) |
| Discipline: | German |
| Sub Discipline: | Latin philology, logic and theory of science |
| Website: | https://uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/philosophische-fakultaet/fachbereiche/neuphilologie/deutsches-seminar/abteilungen/linguistik/personen/reis/ |
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.[1]
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').[2] [3] In 1975, she completed a habilitation in German Philology at LMU Munich with "Presuppositions and Syntax" ('Präsuppositionen und Syntax').[4]
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).
In 2010, Reis was named Honorary Professor at the Institute for German Language and Linguistics at the Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany. [5] In 2016, Reis was awarded the Wilhelm von Humboldt Prize for lifetime achievement in Germany.[6]