CONTRIBUTOR:
Thomas Stolz
AFFILIATION:
TITLE:
Professor
DEPARTMENT:
Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften
INSTITUTION:
Universität Bremen
BIOGRAPHY:
Thomas Stolz has been professor of general and comparative linguistics at the University of Bremen since 1998. He received his PhD from the University of Bochum in 1985 (on Creole linguistics, university award in 1986). He finished his Habilitation in 1991 (on language change, award of the Northrhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences in 1995). He held the Karl-Brugmann-Chair in 1991 at the University of Leipzig. From 1991-1995 his research was financed within the Heisenberg-programme of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. He has published extensively on a variety of subjects such as language typology, morphology, areal linguistics, language change, language contact. He is an expert of Chamorro, Classical Nahuatl, Latvian, Maltese, and Welsh.