Hans Marchand

Hans Marchand (Krefeld, 1 October 1907 – Genoa, 13 December 1978^[1]) was a German linguist. He studied Romance languages, English and Latin, and after fleeing Germany in 1934^[2] was a lecturer of linguistics at Istanbul, Yale University, and Bard College. From 1957 to 1973 he was a professor at the University of Tübingen.^[1]

Marchand published works on linguistic phenomena occurring in languages such as English, French, Turkish and Italian,^[3] but became famous in his discipline for his theories on word-formation in the English language. Linguists following his approach are called Marchandeans.^[4]

Marchand wrote much of what would become The Categories and Types of Present-Day English Word-Formation (1960) "while in internal exile in Turkey in an Anatolian village from 1944 to 1945, under threat of repatriation to Germany".^[2] Decades after the publication in 1969 of the second, greatly expanded (and much more widely cited) edition, it was still being cited approvingly in the morphology literature: "has remained the authoritative description of English word-formation",^[2] a "meticulous volume",^[5] a "milestone monograph",^[6] a "monumental volume . . . likely to continue to be widely used as a reference book".^[7]