Universität Konstanz 
 Fachbereich Sprachwissenschaft     
 

frans plank

curriculum vitae   Frans Plank
 •  born 24 May 1949 at Hengersberg, Bavaria, Germany
   •  educated at the universities of Regensburg (M.A. 1975), York, and Edinburgh (M.Litt. 1981); Dr. phil. (1980) and Habilitation (1981) from Universität Hannover
   •  research and teaching positions in the linguistics or English departments at the universities of Bielefeld (1973-75), Berlin (Technische Universität, 1976-78), Hannover (1978-83)
   •  Professor in the Department of Linguistics of Universität Konstanz
since 1983
   •  visiting teaching or research appointments at the LSA Institute at Universität Salzburg (1979), the Université de Provence at Aix-en-Provence (1985), the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities
at Edinburgh (1986), Universität Zürich (1989-90), Aarhus Universitet (1996-97), the Typology Summer School at Mainz (1998), Universität Graz (1996-97), the Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa at Tokyo (2001), the LOT summer school at Utrecht (2001),
the Typological Winter School at Moscow (2002), the Faculty for Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics at Oxford (2010)
   •  honorary secretary of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (1982-83), co-founder of the Association for Linguistic Typology (1994) and member of its executive committee since 1996, member of the Academy Committee for the edition of Wilhelm von Humboldt’s linguistic writings, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1995-2005)
   •  coordinator of the Noun Phrase group in the EUROTYP programme of the European Science Foundation (1989-95)
   •  consulting or associate editor of Typological Studies in Language
(since 1983), Linguistische Berichte (1985-2004), Linguistics (since 1985), Studies in Language (since 1992), Rivista di Linguistica (1997-2003), Jezikoslovlje (since 2003), Transactions of the Philological Society
(since 2006)
   •  founder and editor of Linguistic Typology, 1997–2017
consulting editor of Transactions of the Philological Society since 2014
   •  Member of Council Philological Society, since 2018
 

 

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life and times

 
   
   

Stunde Null
Hohe Schule
New: ALT
Ansichten der Natur, bei Freilicht
Ah Bartleby! Ah Humanity!
PLANK plus
Drinka pinta milka day
Sprache verorten, vergebens
Dr. Who?
Beasts like us
A morphologist’s advice to the Oxford Bus Company
en vacances
Wundersame Brotvermehrung
Schatten / Spiegel
nani gigantum humeris insidentes
Schweiz reformiert
It’s cricket
The History Boys (and Girls) on TV!
Public transported: An inside narrative
Die Lage der Linguistik in der BRD und ich
Der EURO-Entscheider
Parallelaktion
GENIUS LOCI
Winter Viewings: Wien, Innere Stadt
A CHRISTMAS REVERIE
Angst des Tormanns
Über Wasser, aber eins nach dem andern
Kannitverstan on Kennedy
Voices
Fröhliche Türken Deklinieren
Auswärtssieg
bwegt
Gender Gerechtigkeit
Und Smetana

   
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