Manfred Bierwisch#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 932 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 1991 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Manfred Bierwisch passed away July 31, 2024.
Positions Held
- 1993 Full professor at the Humboldt University Berlin
- 1992 - 1996 Director of the Max Planck Research Group "Structural Grammar" at the Humboldt University Berlin
- 1980 - 1991 Head of the research group Cognitive Linguistics at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR
Fields of Scholarship
- Semantics
- Linguistics
- Morphology
- Syntax
- Phonology
Honours and Awards
- 2012 Wilhelm von Humboldt Award for lifetime achievement by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS)
- 2005 Honorary Doctorate of the University of Leipzig
- 1998 Honorary Member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences
- 1995 Honorary Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 1993 Founding member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences
