Stephen Adolphe Wurm (August 19, 1922–October 24, 2001) was an Australian linguist. Events 43 BC - Octavian, later known as Augustus compels the Roman Senate to elect him Consul. Year 1922 ( MCMXXII) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 69 - Second Battle of Bedriacum, forces under Antonius Primus the commander of the Danube armies loyal to Vespasian, defeat Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. Linguistics is the scientific study of Language, encompassing a number of sub-fields
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Biography
Wurm was born in Budapest, the second child to the German-speaking Adolphe Wurm and Hungarian-speaking Anna Novroczky, and was christened Istvan Adolphe Wurm. Budapest ( also /ˈbʊ-/) is the capital city of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary it serves as the country's principal Political, The German language (de ''Deutsch'') is a West Germanic language and one of the world's major languages. Hungarian ( magyar nyelv) is a Uralic language (more specifically a Ugric language) unrelated to most other languages in Europe. His father died before Stephen was born.
Both of his parents were multilingual and Wurm also showed an interest in languages from an early age. Attending school in Vienna and travelling to all parts of Europe during his childhood, Wurm spoke nine languages by the time he reached adulthood. Vienna ( in Wien; see also other names) is the Capital of Austria, and is also one of the nine States of Austria.
Wurm grew up stateless, unable to take the nationality of either parent or of his country of residence, Austria. Austria (Österreich ( officially the Republic of Austria (Republik Österreich This enabled him to avoid military service and attend university. He studied Turkic languages at the Oriental Institute in Vienna, receiving his doctorate in linguistics and social anthropology in 1944 for a dissertation on the Uzbek language. The Turkic languages constitute a Language family of some thirty languages spoken by Turkic peoples across a vast area from Eastern Europe and the Year 1944 ( MCMXLIV) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Uzbek ( O‘zbek tili or O'zbekcha in Latin script, Ўзбек тили in Cyrillic script; أۇزبېك ﺗﻴﻠی in Arabic
In 1946 he married fellow student Helene (Helen) Maria Groeger, a specialist in African ethnography. Year 1946 ( MCMXLVI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full 1946 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. He taught Altaic linguistics at the University of Vienna until 1951. The University of Vienna (Universität Wien is a Public university located in Vienna, Austria.
After reading some works by S. H. Ray, Wurm became interested in Papuan languages and began a correspondence with Rev. The term Papuan languages refers to those Languages of the western Pacific which are neither Austronesian nor Australian. Dr. Arthur Capell, lecturer in linguistics at the University of Sydney. Arthur Capell (28 March 1902–1986 was an Australian linguist, who made major contributions to the study of Australian languages, Austronesian languages The University of Sydney (informally Sydney Uni or USyd) is the oldest university in Australia Wurm began teaching himself Tok Pisin and Police Motu from books and took up a position in London. Tok Pisin ( tok means "word" or "speech" as in "talk" pisin means " Pidgin " is a creole spoken throughout Hiri Motu, Police Motu or Pidgin Motu is an official Language of Papua New Guinea. In 1954 the Wurms moved to Australia where Capell had organised for Wurm a post in the Anthropology Department at the University of Sydney. Year 1954 ( MCMLIV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1954 Gregorian calendar) In 1957 the Wurms moved to Canberra where Stephen took up a post as Senior Fellow within the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studes at the new Australian National University. Year 1957 ( MCMLVII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1957 Gregorian calendar) The Australian National University, commonly abbreviated to ANU, is a public Research university situated in Canberra, Australia. That same year the Wurms took up Australian citizenship. From this time on the main focus of Wurm's research was the study of the languages of New Guinea, although he also carried out research on a number of Australian Aboriginal languages. New Guinea, located just north of Australia, is the world's second largest island, having become separated from the Australian mainland when the area now known
Publications and collections of work
- "Languages of Australia and Tasmania" (Mouton, Den Haag, 1972)
- In 1963, he began publishing his series entitled "Pacific Languages"：
- "New Guinea area languages and language study（3 volumes）" ~ "Pacific Linguistics, 1975-1977"
- "Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger of Disappearing" (1996)
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- [1] (book)
- "The Duungidjawu language of southeast Queensland: Grammar, texts and vocabulary" (Pacific Linguistics)
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- [2] (book)
References
- Pawley, Andrew. Year 1963 ( MCMLXIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Pacific Linguistics is a non-profit Publisher located at the Australian National University, Canberra, printing linguistic materials 2002. Stephen Wurm, 1922-2001: Linguist Extraordinaire. Oceanic Linguistics, 41:1.
External links
- Pacific Linguistics （publisher）
- Foundation For Endangered Languages
- Academy of the Humanities - Fellows of the Academy : Wurm
- Project MUSE
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