Heinz Joachim Giegerich is a Scottish linguist of German nationality, and Emeritus Professor of English Linguistics in th
School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Science
of the

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Biography

Born 1952 in

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(Germany) and brought up in the nearby town of Eschweiler, Professor Giegerich studied English Linguistics, General Linguistics, English Literature and Journalism at the

University of Mainz The Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz () is a public research university in Mainz, Rhineland Palatinate, Germany. It has been named after the printer Johannes Gutenberg since 1946. it had approximately 32,000 students enrolled in around 100 a ...

, graduating ''Magister Artium'' in 1978 under the supervision of Professors Klaus Faiss and Gerhard Wahrig. He joined th
University of Edinburgh
in 1979 as a lecturer and completed his PhD (''Aspects of Metrical Phonology: German and English'') there in 1983 under the supervision of John M Anderson. He was Associate Dean (Postgraduate) in the Faculty of Arts from 2000 to 2003 and Head of the Department of English Language from 2001 until its merger with Linguistics in 2005. He was the Director of the university'
Angus McIntosh Centre for Historical Linguistics
from 2012 to 2018 and retired from the university in 2019. He was a Trustee of th
Scottish Language Dictionaries
until 2024 and is an Honorary Member of the Angus McIntosh Centre and a Fellow of th
Royal Society of Edinburgh
He lives i
Innerleithen
in the Scottish Borders. His research and teaching focused on phonological and morphological theory, especially in relation to English and

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. His particular research interests have included the following: * the representation of

prosodic In linguistics, prosody () is the study of elements of speech, including intonation (linguistics), intonation, stress (linguistics), stress, Rhythm (linguistics), rhythm and loudness, that occur simultaneously with individual phonetic segments: v ...

structure (syllable structure, stress, rhythm) within the theory of Metrical Phonology * stress, poetic metre and more generally aspects of prosodic structure in the history of English * the status of orthography in phonological structures, and in phonological theory in general * the distinction between 'lexical' and 'postlexical' phenomena, both in morphology and phonology * the theory of "base-driven lexical stratification", which he developed in the 1990s * the interfaces of the

morphology Morphology, from the Greek and meaning "study of shape", may refer to: Disciplines *Morphology (archaeology), study of the shapes or forms of artifacts *Morphology (astronomy), study of the shape of astronomical objects such as nebulae, galaxies, ...

with the phonology and the syntax * the study of morphological and syntactic phenomena which suggest that lexical levels, as well as the morphology and the syntax, are not discrete modules of the grammar but overlap with each other * the analysis of compound words within the theory of Lexicalism Heinz Giegerich is the founder of the
Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language
' and was the General Editor of the series until 2024. He was one of the founding Editors (with Laurie Bauer and Gregory Stump) of the linguistic morphology journal, ''

Word Structure ''Word Structure'' is an international academic journal covering linguistic morphology and all related disciplines. It is published twice-yearly, in April and October, by Edinburgh University Press and was founded in 2008 under the editorship of ...

''.

Publications

His major publications include the following: * ''Metrical phonology and phonological structure: German and English'' (= Cambridge Studies in Linguistics; ''43)''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. * ''English phonology: an introduction'' (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. orean translation, ''Yong ô um sông um un ron.'' Seoul: Han-shin Publishing Co., 1996.* ''Lexical strata in English: morphological causes, phonological effects'' (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics; ''89''). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. * ''Lexical structures: compounding and the modules of grammar'' (Edinburgh Studies in Theoretical Linguistics; ''1''). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015.

References

External links

Heinz Giegerich's home page at the University of Edinburgh

Word Structure official website

Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language

University of Edinburgh

The Angus McIntosh Centre for Historical Linguistics
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