Gunnar Bech (March 23, 1920 in Græse,

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– January 17, 1981 in

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)Christoph König; Birgit Wägenbaur (eds.): ''Internationales Germanistenlexikon 1800-1950.'' Vol. 1, Walter de Gruyter, 2003, , p. 107 was a Danish

linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), Morphology (linguistics), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds ...

. His

magnum opus A masterpiece, , or ; ; ) is a creation that has been given much critical praise, especially one that is considered the greatest work of a person's career or a work of outstanding creativity, skill, profundity, or workmanship. Historically, ...

was ''Studies on the German Verbum Infinitum'' (Bech 1955/1957, reprinted 1983). It is perhaps the most widely cited single work on the

German verb German verbs may be classified as either ''weak'', with a dental consonant inflection, or ''strong'', showing a vowel gradation (ablaut). Both of these are regular systems. Most verbs of both types are regular, though various subgroups and ano ...

Partial list of written works

* * ''Zur Syntax des tschechischen Konjunktivs.'' Kopenhagen 1951, at the same time: Phil. Diss. (Dissertation writing) * ''Das germanische reduplizierte Präteritum'' (Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab, Historisk-filosofiske Meddelelser 44, no. 1, p. 1–54), Munksgaard København, 1969. * *

References

Linguists from Denmark 1920 births 1981 deaths People from Frederikssund Municipality 20th-century Danish linguists {{Linguist-stub