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Prof. Dr. Daniel Jacob

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University of Freiburg
Romanic Linguistics

Internal Senior Fellow (FRIAS School of Language & Literature)
April 2010 – March 2011

Last Update: 31.08.2011

Curriculum Vitae

Daniel Jacob completed his PhD in Romance Philology in 1987 at the University of Heidelberg. From 1988 to 1994 he collaborated on an interdisciplinary research project on oral and scriptural cultures (SFB 321: Übergänge und Spannungsfelder zwischen Mündlichkeit und Schriftlichkeit) at the University of Freiburg. In 1995 he became a Professor of Romance Philology at the University of Munich (LMU); from 2001 to 2007, he held the chair of Ibero-Romance Linguistics at the University of Cologne; since 2007 he has held the chair of Romance Linguistics at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau. He taught as a guest professor at various universities in Latin America (México D.F.; Guadalajara, Mexico; Morelia, México; San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina; Caracas, etc.). His main research interests are Romance syntax (mainly Spanish and French, following a “functionalist” approach), language evolution and grammatical change, socio-historical aspects of discourse and text production.

Selected Publications

FRIAS Project