Hansjakob Seiler#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 971 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 1991 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
Hansjakob Seiler passed away August 13, 2018.
Present and Previous Positions
- 1986 Professor emeritus
- 1959 - 1986 Chair of General and Comparative Linguistics at the University of Cologne
- 1965-1966 Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Stanford, California
- 1953-1955 Rockefeller Fellow
Fields of Scholarship
- Non-European languages
- Generative grammar
- Native American languages
Honours and Awards
- Member of the Société Linguistique de Paris (since 1947)
- Member of the Linguistic Society of America (Life Member)
- Member of the International Association of Semiotic Studies
- Member of Societas Linguistica Europaea (1980 President)
- Honorary member of the Swiss Society of Linguistics
- Corresponding member of the Rhenish-Westphalian Academy of Sciences
- Member of the Academia Europaea, London
- Honorary doctorates from the universities of Leuven and Paris VII
