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General Peter Kosta (born September, 20, 1955 in Prague) is a German professor of Slavic linguistics at the Institute for Slavic Studies at the University of Potsdam. His teaching and research include biolinguistics, language impairments and disorders, language acquisition, universals, language typology and formal syntax and semantics, comparative linguistics, language contact and minority language research, language policy and politolinguistics, pragmatics, especially conversation analysis, speech act theory, translation theory. Life Peter Kosta was born September 20, 1955 in Prague, Czechoslowakia, in a German-Jewish-Czech family, the son of the economist and journalist Jiri Kosta (*October, 2nd 1921, as Heinrich Georg Kohn) and the artist Helena Kosta (* Kohoutová February 29, 1932 in Prague). His ancestors include his father (economist and reformer of the spring of Prague under Dubcek), and his grandfather - Oskar Kosta. (1888 - 1973), Dr.Phil, teacher of French and German at the famous Stephansgymnasium Prague, translator, writer and poet (alias Peter Pont), and the uncle, publisher and diplomat, Tomas Kosta. Starting in 1962, Kosta attended a Czech elementary school in Prague, until he emigrated
Since 1982, Peter Kosta has worked a Assistant Professor at the Institute of Phonetics, Indo-European Linguistics and Slavic Philology of the JW Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main where he worked with the specialist for Tocharian A and B, Werner Thomas. Peter Kosta made his PhD in 1985, Dr. phil. "Summa cum laude" with a thesis on "Problems of Švejk translations in the West and South Slavic languages. Linguistic studies of translation of literary texts", Munich: Sagner (Specimina philologiae Slavicae Supplement Volume 13.). Gerd Freidhof was his Doctor father. From 1987 to 1992, Kosta worked as associate professor (Hochschulassistant C1) at the Slavic Department in institutes of Phonetics, Indo-European Linguistics, and Slavic philology. In 1992, he qualified with the habilitation thesis: "Empty categories in nordslavischen languages: towards an analysis of null subjects and null objects in the Government-Binding Theory" Frankfurt am Main, JW Goethe University, venia legendi "Slavic philology with special emphasis on general linguistics, "opponents were Rudolf Růžička (Slavic and General Linguistics, Leipzig), Günter Grewendorf (General Linguistics, Germanic linguistics, JW Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main), and Gerd Freidhof (Slavic Linguistics). Peter Kosta is an author and editor of numerous monographs and edited volumes, the editors of major science series on linguistics, his oeuvre includes more than 300 articles. Peter Kosta is on board a number of important scientific journals and a member of many scientific organizations. His numerous invitations as invited speaker and his expertise in PhD committees and habilitation committees and as an expert in the evaluation of Research Projects is known around the world. Peter Kosta was, among others, a visiting professor at Princeton, USA (1999, 2005), at Harvard Univ., USA, and he has just been invited as visiting prof. with teaching appointment to the Department of Linguistics at the Univ. of Chicago (Fall 2012). He is teaching regularly at many Universities in Czech Republic (TG Masaryk University, Brno; Palacky University Olomouc; Charles University Prague) and he is invited speaker in Russia and Poland many times. His language skills include active Czech, English, French, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Slovak, Sorbian, Upper Sorbian, Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Slovenian, Bulgarian, Macedonian. In addition, the passive language skills come from Ancient Greek, Latin, Sanskrit, Vedic, Hittite, Old Irish, Tocharian, Lithuanian and other languages. Download 6.76 Kb. Share with your friends:
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