Dieter
Wanner, Professor of Spanish and Linguistics
Office Information
254 Hagerty Hall, 1775 College Road, Columbus, OH, 43210
Phone: 614-292-5962
Fax: 614-292-7726
Office Hours:
For SU06 and AU06, by appointment (please contact
me at wanner.2@osu.edu)
Personal URL(s):
http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/wanner2/
Education and positions
Dr. phil.: University of Zürich (Switzerland), 1971
Dept. of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1969-1988
Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, The Ohio State University, 1988 to present
Also Chair, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, OSU, 1996-2004
Research Awards
NEH Fellowship, 1983-84, for work on the development of Romance unstressed pronouns
Research Award ("Forschungspreis"), Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation (Germany), for a year of research at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg i. Br., 1994-95
Areas of specialization:
Spanish historical linguistics
Historical (morpho)syntax
Comparative Romance linguistics
Italian historical linguistics and dialects
Research project related to Faculty Professional Leave 2004-2005:
Historical linguistics between formal theory and philological foundations (a monographic essay), published as "The Power of Analogy. An Essay on Historical Linguistics", Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin (Trends in Linguistics, Studies and Monographs 170), 2006.
http://www.degruyter.de/rs/bookSingle.cfm?id=IS-3110188732-1&fg=SK&l=E
Research project related to Special Research Assignment, Autumn 2006:
The development of Romance clitic pronouns from medieval to modern Spanish
A monographic project to continue the 1987 study on the protohistory of Romance clitics from Latin to the Middle Ages, focusing on comparative aspects between Spanish and other Romance languages and taking into central consideration the combination of clitics and nonfinite verb forms. The study primarily thematizes the disappearance of the medieval syntactic constellation (the Tobler-Mussafia syndrome) and the emergence of the modern morphological solution. Ongoing research.
Aspects of verbal morphology: Analogical changes.
A set of three papers dealing with a detailed analysis of thge evolutgion from Old Spanish 2 pl forms in /+des/ to the modern ending /+js/ (HLS VII, 2003), the origin and spread of /-j/ in "soy, doy, voy, estoy" (Probus 18.2, 2006), and the forces steering such analogical changes in their detailed chronology and diffusion (ms.).
For more information on professional activities and publications, current research projects, and class syllabi, please visit my Web page at http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/wanner2/ (under construction).
