Bernd Nothofer

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Bernd Nothofer
Born (1941-12-18) 18 December 1941 (age 82)
Krefeld, Germany
NationalityGerman
OccupationLinguist
Academic background
Alma materYale University
Academic work
InstitutionsGoethe University Frankfurt
Main interestsAustronesian languages

Bernd Nothofer (born 18 December 1941 in Krefeld, Germany) is a German linguist. His primary research interests include Austronesian historical linguistics, Malayic dialectology, and the languages of Indonesia.[1]

Education

After graduating from high school, Nothofer studied in

Millersville State College in Pennsylvania
, United States.

From 1967 to 1973, he studied linguistics with Isidore Dyen at Yale University. In 1973, he graduated with PhD in Linguistics after completing fieldwork in the Indonesian provinces of West Java and Central Java. In 1977, he completed his habilitation at the University of Cologne.[2]

Career

From 1973 to 1981, Nothofer was a research assistant at the

Frankfurt am Main
, where he was Professor at the Institute for Southeast Asian Studies until his retirement in 2008.

From 1985 to 2000, he was a visiting professor at

Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, and the University of Melbourne
.

In 2006, he was honored with the festschrift Insular Southeast Asia: linguistic and cultural studies in honor of Bernd Nothofer in Frankfurt.[3]

In 2012, another festschrift in honor of Nothofer was published in Yogyakarta, titled Seminar Sehari bersama Prof. Dr. Bernd Nothofer dan Purnabakti Dr. Inyo Yos Fernandez.

Personal life

Nothofer is married and has three children.

Selected publications

  • The reconstruction of Proto-Malayo-Javanic. In: Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 73 (1975). Nijhoff, The Hague.
  • Dialektgeographische Untersuchungen in West-Java und im westlichen Zentraljava. 2 Bände. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1980.
  • Dialektatlas von Zentral-Java. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1981.
  • with K.-H. Pampus, Gloria und Soepomo Poedjosoedarmo: Bahasa Indonesia. Indonesisch für Deutsche. Teil 1. Groos, Heidelberg 1985.
  • with K.-H. Pampus, Gloria und Soepomo Poedjosoedarmo: Bahasa Indonesia. Indonesisch für Deutsche. Teil 2. Groos, Heidelberg 1987.
  • (editor). Die deutsche Malaiologie. Festschrift zu Ehren von Frau Professor Dr. Irene Hilgers-Hesse. Groos, Heidelberg 1988.
  • with K.-H. Pampus: Bahasa Indonesia. Indonesisch für Deutsche. Teil 1. Zweite, vollständig überarbeitete Auflage. Groos, Heidelberg 1988.
  • (editor). Reconstruction, Classification, Description. Festschrift in Honor of Isidore Dyen. Abera, Hamburg 1997.
  • Dialek Melayu Bangka. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi 1997.
  • Pengantar etimologi. Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta 2013.

References

  1. ^ Adib, Holy (April 6, 2019). "Dialek dan Logat: Istilah yang Tertukar". Beritagar. Archived from the original on July 30, 2021. Retrieved December 26, 2020..
  2. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
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