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Kurt Gustav Goblirsch
German Faculty
Professor

Phone: (803) 777-2894
Fax:     (803) 777-0132 
E-mail: Kurt@sc.edu

 Education
 A.B.:  Washington University, St. Louis, 1984, with Honors
 M.A.:  University of Minnesota, 1987
 Ph.D.: University of Minnesota, 1990 
 
 Teaching Interests
German Linguistics
Comparative Germanic Linguistics
History of Linguistics
Medieval Germanic Literature


 Selected Courses
Introduction to the Germanic languages
Comparative Germanic linguistics
History of the German language
History of the English language
Schools of phonology
Scandinavian mythology and heroic poetry
Middle High German language and literature
Structure of modern German
Advanced German grammar
 
 Research Interests
Germanic linguistics: German, English, Scandinavian, Dutch, Frisian, Gothic, Runes
Dialectology: German, Scandinavian, English, Dutch, Frisian
Historical phonology, Etymology
 Research Grants
Research Fellowship, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
Research Fellowship, Swedish Institute (SI)
Senior Research Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities
Grant, Research Opportunity Program, University of South Carolina
 Selected Publications

A Bibliography of English Etymology, 1763-1999. Vol. 1 of An Encyclopedic Dictionary of English Etymology. With Ari Hoptman and Martha Mayou. Edited by Anatoly Liberman. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. (forthcoming).

Lautverschiebungen in den germanischen Sprachen. Germanistische Bibliothek 23. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag. Winter, 2005.

Germanic Studies in Honor of Anatoly Liberman Ed. with Martha Berryman Mayou and Marvin Taylor. North-Western European Language Evolution 31/32. Odense: Odense University Press, 1997. 

Consonant Strength in Upper German Dialects. NOWELE Supplement Volumes 10. Odense: Odense University Press, 1994. 

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