Jørgen Rischel

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Jørgen Rischel (August 10, 1934 - May 10, 2007) was a Danish linguist who worked extensively with different subjects in linguistics especially phonetics and phonology, lexicography and documentation of endangered languages.

[edit] Career

Rischel held a doctorate in linguistics. He was a professor of linguistics at the University of Copenhagen, and later became professor Emeritus. He was a specialist in the Greenlandic language of which he published the most comprehensive phonological study (1974) to date. He published extensively on topics in Danish, Faroese and Greenlandic particular phonetics and phonology. Recently, he focused on Mon-Khmer languages and he did extensive fieldwork in Thailand on an endangered and previously undescribed dialect of the Khmuic language Mlabri.

[edit] Honors and organizations

In 1991, Rischel was knighted into the Order of the Dannebrog by Queen Margrethe II of Denmark. He was a member of the Royal Danish Academy of the Sciences. He has served as a co-editor of the linguistic Journal international Journal of American Linguistics.

[edit] Selected publications

  • 1974, Topics in West Greenlandic Phonology. Copenhagen: Akademisk Forlag.
  • 1972, Consonant Reduction in Faroese Noncompound Wordforms. In Firchow, E. S., Grimstad, K. Hasselmo, N. & W. A. O’Neil (eds.), Studies for Einar Haugen presented by Friends and Colleagues. 482-497.
  • 1995, Minor Mlabri. A Hunter-Gatherer Language of Northern Indochina,ISBN 87-7289-294-3.
  • 2004, Pan-dialectal databases: Mlabri, an oral Mon-Khmer language, Lexicography Conference, Chiangmai.
  • In what sense is Mlabri a West Khmuic language?


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