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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
  Germanic linguistics and medieval literature
  Historical linguistics
  Phonology 
 
 Research Interests

  Comparative Germanic linguistics
  Historical phonology
  German, Scandinavian, and English dialects

 Selected Publications

BOOKS:

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, 2007. (forthcoming).

Lautverschiebungen in den germanischen Sprachen. Germanistische Bibliothek. 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. 

ARTICLES:

“The Voicing of Fricatives in West Germanic and the Partial Consonant Shift.” Folia Linguistica Historica 24 (2003): 111-52.

“On the Development of Germanic Consonants: The Danish Shift and the Danish Lenition.” Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur 124 (2002): 199-232.

“The North Frisian Lenition and Danish Linguistic Hegemony.” New Insights in Germanic Linguistics III. Ed. Irmengard Rauch and Gerald F. Carr. Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics 52. New York: Lang, 2002. 45-65.

"The Icelandic Consonant Shift in its Germanic Context." Arkiv för nordisk filologi 116 (2001): 117-33. 

"The Correlation of Voice in Germanic." North-Western European Language Evolution 35 
(1999):115-40. (journal article)

"The Types of Gemination in West Germanic." New Insights in Germanic Linguistics I. Ed. Irmengard Rauch and Gerald F. Carr. Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics 33. New York: Lang, 1999. 57-75. 

"From Voice to Length in High German Consonants." Interdisciplinary Journal for Germanic Linguistics and Semiotic Analysis 2 (1997): 257-80. 

"Consonant Lenition in German Dialects." North-Western European Language Evolution 24
(1994): 67-90.

"Fortis and Lenis in Standard German." Leuvense Bijdragen 83 (1994): 31-45.

"Consonant Lenition in the Scandinavian Languages." Svenska landsmål och svenskt folkliv  (1993): 7-17.

"Germanic ai and au in Anglo-Frisian." Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik 33 
(1991): 17-23.

 

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