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Thomas Städtler, June 21, 1957 – June 3, 2024
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Thomas Städtler

We mourn the loss of our longtime colleague and dear friend Thomas Städtler, who passed away on June 3, 2024, at the age of 66. You can find our obituary here.

Teaching
  • Adjunct Professor in the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Freiburg (since 2013).
  • Assistant Professor at the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Freiburg (2008–2013).
  • Visiting professorship at the University of Nancy 2, February–April 2008.
  • Lecturer at the Franco-German Summer School on Romance Etymology, Nancy, ATILF, July 26–30, 2010.
  • Lecturer at the Summer School: Lexicographical Work, Bordeaux, International Association for Occitan Studies, July 9–12, 2007.
Collaboration on projects
  • Member of the Management Committee and the Steering Group of the COST Action“Medieval Europe – Medieval Cultures and Technological Resources”(2011–2015).
  • Chair of the Working Group on Textual Corpora and Reading Tools of the COST Action “Medieval Europe” (2011–2015).
  • International collaborator on the DETCOL project (Développement et exploitation textuelle d'un corpus d'oeuvres linguistiques) (2007–2011).
  • Proofreader for the“Base des mots-fantômes”project (ATILF, Nancy).
  • External contributor and proofreader for the *Révision sélective des notices étymologiques du Trésor de la Langue Française (TLF-Étym)*.
  • Edition of Baudri de Bourgueil’s Anglo-Norman account of the Crusades, accompanied by a comprehensive lexical analysis. Preparation of the compiled materials for the DEAF and AND dictionaries (a joint project of the DFG and AHRC, 2009–2012).
  • Ovid in French. The Origins, Evolution, and Reception of *Ovide Moralisé* (a joint project of the DFG and ANR, 2013–2016).
Other
  • Albert Dauzat Prize, awarded by the Société de Linguistique Romane, Nancy, 2013.
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Bibliography
A. Monographs
  1. On the Origins of Standard French. Text Editions and Vocabulary Studies, Tübingen (Niemeyer) 1988. Supplements to the Journal of Romance Philology 223. X + 303 pp.
    [Reviews and notices: B. Merrilees, *Romania* 109 (1988) 397–411; Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies 50 (1988) 26; G. Price French Studies 44 (1990) 110–111; G. Roques RLiR 54 (1990) 302–302; L. Löfstedt Vox Romanica 49/50 (1990/91) 527–528; S. Heinimann ZrP 107 (1991) 213–215; E. Werner AnS 228 (1991) 421–424; S. Kowallik ZfSL 101 (1991) 320; J. Kramer Studi Francesi 36 (1992) 413–414; H.-J. Niederehe Romanische Forschungen 104 (1992) 190–192; Ch. Schmitt Romanistisches Jahrbuch 43 (1992) 187–189]
  2. (with Sabine Tittel, Stephen Dörr, and Frankwalt Möhren) Guillaume de Digulleville. *Le Pelerinage de Vie humaine* – *The Pilgrimage to the Heavenly Jerusalem*, Darmstadt (Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft) 2013 (with contributions by W. Metzger and K. Zimmermann, ed. by V. Probst).
B. Publishing Activities
  1. Scientific Lexicography in the German-Speaking World, Heidelberg (Carl Winter Verlag) 2003, XII + 548 pp.
  2. (with Stephen Dörr) Ki bien voldreit raisun entendre. Mélanges in honor of Frankwalt Möhren’s 70th birthday, Strasbourg (Éditions de linguistique et de philologie) 2012 (Bibliothèque de Linguistique Romane 9), XXX + 337 pp.
  3. Guillaume de Digulleville: The Pilgrimage to the Heavenly Jerusalem, Darmstadt (Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft) 2014
  4. (with Craig Baker, Marianne Besseyre, Mattia Cavagna, et al.) *Ovide Moralisé*, Book I, Paris (F. Paillart) 2018 (Société des Anciens Textes Français), 2 vols., 988 pp.
C. Entries in the Dictionnaire étymologique de l’ancien français [DEAF]
  1. Fascicle G5 (1988):

    gigant, gimel, gimnologizere, *ginosophiste, giroudot, [*givre], gladiateur, [glai], [glaive], *glarie, [gliier/glicier], [gloire], *glopoiier, [glose].

  2. Fascicle G6 (1989):

    [glotir], [glu], gnomé, godebert, godeman, godemecin, godemine, godemite, godin, godiniere, goditoët, goësche, goet, goffrinech, gogue, goherel, goille, *gojon1, gojon2, gole, goleis, golene, golias, golie, goloper, golos, golot, golte, gomalt, gome1, gome2, gomer, gomoree, gonboné, gondele, gone, gonfanon, gont, gorderiemen, gorge, gorgocier, gorgueillon, *gorjos, gorle, gorre, gort1, *gort2, gosse, gost, goster, gote, gothieus, *gouascher, goud, goudeliz, goudet, goue, gouge, goulier, goume1, goume2, goupil, gourge, gout, goutefiere, gove.

  3. Fascicle G7 (1993):

    gover, governail, governer, goz, graal, grabaton, grace, graciier, gracios, gradation, grade1, gradif, graduel, grael1, grafe, grafiner, gragan, graife, [grain], graindain, graindre, graioler, gramaire1, gramaire2, gramatique1, grammar2, gramon, grandism, grant, grape, cluster, grate1, grate2, gratice, gratify, gratuity, congratulate, gravative, grave1, grave2, graveda.

  4. Fascicle G8 (1994):

    gravilleïs, gravir, gravisme, gravissement, gravité, gré1, gré2, gregier, gregorien, *grement, grenchoun, grene, grenon1, gres1, gres2, gresser, *greüs, greüsier, grevamen, grever, grief, grim, grimuche, *grin, grinellé, griscon, grisnier, grisoyer, gristel, groignier, groin, groisse, *groissor.

  5. Volume G9/G10 (1995):

    grometical, grommer, gronce, grondir/grondre, gronir, gros, groser, grosisme, grosse, *groté, *grumbaz, grumez, guaraut, guardireve, guarnelo, guasmul, gudderi, gueaaille, guerbis, guercin, guerfil, *guerineur, *guerlandois, guernart, guerp, guerpir, guerre, guerredon, guervise, *guessoi, gueste, gui, guiart, guidel, guigne1, guigne2, guignier1, guignier2, guignon, guihale, guiier/guider, guile, guimauve, guinde, guinon, guiper, guis, guische, guischet, *guischier, guit, guite, guiten, guitepire, guiton, gulucion, guolande, gurdeler, gurgulacion, gustatif, gutuy, gymel, gymnastique, *gynecocratie, *gyneconomie, *gyneconomos, gyri.

  6. Fascicle H1 (1997):

    habredache, hache1, hache2, hachipas, hackenail, hacutin, hadie, haguier, haignier, haignon, *haile, hailletel, haillon, haincelin, *hainouart, haïr, haire, haistaut, haldrobe, haler, halhaste, halife, halloer, halot, hamoingnier, hanche, *hanchier, hanekoke, hangeman, *hanker, hansac, hanscote, hanzir, hape, haquenee, hardi1.

  7. Fascicle H2 (1998):

    hardi2, hardie, hardoier, hardouin, haricier, harle, harlige, haroie, has1, has2, *hascher, haschiere, *haser, hasler, hasseus, haste, hature, haugeceme, haurir, hauseleamye, *havax, havredas, hawen, hayement, heaume, hebre, hecquier, heel, heet, hefmoder, heibote, heihove, heimelborch, heitevisch, hel, hele1, *helenger, helffurlingwort, helione, helm, helpe, hengwite, *henne, hennequin, henuer, her, herance, herbergier.

  8. Fascicle H3 (1999):

    here1, here2, hergnos, heriel, herion, *heriton, hermoiz, herneis, hertiu, heru1, heru2, *hesticie, hestol, hetoudeau, heueçongne, heuquette, *heurespois, heuwier, heux, heyde, hezas, hibondee, hibou, hicier, hiercopin, hignehan, higue, hildevraeth, hir, hiraut, hisde, hobeler, hobin, hoc, hochier, hockeday, *hoctel, hodilinki, hoigne, hoingnier, holagre, holsake, honir, *honke, honte.

  9. Volume H4/H5 (2000):

    hopembier, hoper, *horendre, houcque, houestre, hourel, hourer, housbote, househire, houtmarc, *hoverer, hoyrin, huche, hucongne, hudel, huerresson, huetsete, huge, huitart, huitefale, huitepure, hukestere, hule, hulie, humbeloc, hundestunge, hundred, hure1, hurebale, hurger, huricle, hurter, huscarle, hututu, huuel, huusoukinghe, huutvaert, huvardy, huvele, huvet.

  10. Volume I1 (2001):

    i1, i2, iauoutelle, *ibont, *icalct, *icocedron, *icoine, *iconome, *iconomie, *iconomique, *ictiofages, identity, ides, idiot, ieblecket, *ieke, *iekel, *iemal, *ïene, ies, ignare, ignavie, igneïié, ignicion, ignorable, ignorance, ignorer, ignot, ijeme, iken, il, illegal, illegitimate, illicit, illinicion, illiricïen, iluec, imbecillité, imbibition, immediate, *immisericors, *immoderate, immolation, filthy, immortality, immortal, immunity, immutable, to change, imperfect, inequality, to impart, impassive, impatient, impediment, to impede, impediment, to impel, to hang, impenitent, to think, imperable, emperor, imperative, imperation, imperfection, impersonal, impertinent, impeticion, implication, implement, complete, imply, implore, intolerable, impropriety, profanity, imprudence, impudence, immodest, starvation, inaugurate, carnality, incarnation, incarnate, originator, incest, incident, uncircumcised, undefined, incitement, incite, uncivil, included, inclusion, inclusively, incoative, *incöer, incolumity, incommelin, incommensurable, incommodity, incommutable, incomparably, incompassible, incompatible, incompetent, incomplete, incomprehensible, inconcessible, incongruous, incontinence, incontinent1, incontinent2, incorporeality, incorruptible, incorruption, incredible, incredulous, incredulity, uncreated, increment, increpation.

  11. Volume I2 (2002):

    reprimand, incubus, to accuse, there, indecent, indeclinable, deficient, indefinitely, *indefinite, indistinct, indicative, Indian, indifference, indifferent, indignation, unworthy, to outrage, indignity, Indian, indissoluble, indocile, indole, indolence, induction, to induce, induces, to induct, inductive, industry, ine, inexplicable, *infaciable, infallible, infamous2, infamous2, infancy, unfaithful, infidelity, minute, infinite, infinitive, infondre, *inforcier, misfortune, misfortune, infraction, infre, infrigidation, fruitless, infuse, infusion, inengineerable, engineer, ingenious, ingenuous, ingest, ingestion, inglorious, ingress, inhibition, *inhibit, initial, initiate, initiation, *injonccion, injure, inlaguier, innaturel, *innigiler, innoble, innocence, innocent1, innocent2, innovacion, innover, innumerable, inobedience, inobedient, inonction, inondacion, inonder, inquinacion, inrogance, insaciable, insacieté, insanable, insaniation, insané, inscience, inscient, insensibility, insensitive, inseparable, insert, insert, inset, inside, instigator, insignia, insinuation, insinuate, insipience, insist, *insite, instability, unstable, install, instance, instant, unbearable, intellect, intellect, intelligibility, intellectual, intellectuality, intellectual, intelligence, intelligible, intercalary, intercede, intercised, prohibit, interjection, interest, interfection, interlude, interim, interjection, interpretable, interpretation, interpreter, interpret, interrogation, interrogate, *introject, introjected, intrusion, enthronement, enthrone, intrusion, *inhuman, *inhumanity, *inumerate, useless.

  12. Issue I3/I4 (2003):

    investigation, to investigate, most invincible, to keep watch, invincible, entanglement, to peer into, invitation, invitatory, invitation, to invite, invocable, invocation, involuntary, to invoke, *ioman, iota, *iperphanie, ipia, *ipobaume, *ipophany, ipoquistidos, hypostasis, hypotame, iraconde, iracondie, iraistre, irascible, ire, iré, irony, *isaru, *iscier, isme, ismon, *isoden, isope, *ispisos, isselite, istoire, istorial, *istoriografe, *istu, *italiien, itineraire, iv, iver1, *ivernail, ivernal, iverner, *iwit.

  13. Volume J1 (2004):

    jacee, jacinte, jacobin, *jacobite, jacques, jactance, jacture, jaculus, jadis, jael, jaerghetide, jagonce, jaiant, jalos, jalu, jangler, janguot, *janney, jante3, japis, jaque, jare1, jarle, jarre, jarscare, *jascoine.

  14. Fascicle J2 (2005):

    *jascoine, jasdi, jasmin, jaune, je, jeu, jobarbe, joc, *jocond, *joconder, jocondité, joër.

  15. Fascicle J3 (2006):

    joër, joïr, jolif, jor.

  16. Fascicle J4-K (2008):

    jornage, jovedi, jovir, jueble, juesdi, juge, jugier, *jugulare, juguler, juil, juin, jujube, julep, juper, juratoire, jurer, jurrent, *jus3, *juseus, *jusive, jusquiame, jussel, justice, justification, justifiier, *juvableté, *juveor, kac, kauclier, kaurenel, *keine, keisel, kenape, kercmester, kertel, keute, kieute, kirieleison, *konciel.

  17. Volume F1 (2012):

    f, fa, fable, fabler, fabulacion, facet, *facetel, facond, faconde, facondieus, facondité, faile, failie, faitiz, falange, falco, fale, falsifier, familiarité, familiede, famle, famolain, famos, famulaires, famule, fanc, fane, fantasy, fantastic, farcel, farder, farlouper, fastel, fastengé, fastidier, fastner, fastrasie, fat, fatigue, fatigos, fatiguer, *faucastre, fauchier1, *fauchier2.

  18. Volume F2 (2014):

    faunet, faunier, faunos, fauste, fauterne, fautriere, favele, faveler, faxee, feltrey, femele, feminin, fendour, fendre, ferment, ferocier, ferocissime, ferruge, fervide, festinance, festination, festiner, fidelité.

  19. Issue F3 (2016):

    fiens, fieus, figurative, figuration, figure, fil1, filandre, fille2, *filopecune, fime, fiole, fir, fisc, *fisle, physiognomy, fissel, fissure, *fius, flage, flagicios, flaide, flain, flaissie.

  20. Issue F4-5 (2018):

    flaitile, flake, flamesche, flandrois, flaor, flape, flasche, flaschir, flaure, flave, flaviier, flection, flengue, flepier, flerie, *flet1, flete, fletir, flexibility, flexible, fliche, flique, flo, flodemark, floenne, flohaut, flomus, floquer, florence, florin, floternel, fluctuation, fluctuate, *fluctuos, fluxibility, fluxible, fluxion, fobert, focal, focile, fogier, foïr, foire2, fondefle, fondeor, fonder, fonge.

  21. Volume E1 (2019):

    e1, ebe, ebil, ebreing, ebrieu, *ebrios, edel, effeminacion, effeminer, *effectuos, effet1, effet2, effusion, *effutement, egerer, egestion, egetaine, egipcien, *egiptial, eine, elacion, elegletier, eligité, elin, elleuper, embevrer, emboivre, *embruschier, embut, *emlesgier, emolument, emomptoire, empedement, empestal, empreignier.

  22. Issue E2-3 (2020):

    enfeste, *engluive, engolsier, engrader, engraunde, enmugler, ensocir, entragne, eo, ephebe, epicene, epicercle, epicicle1, epitalamye, epus, eretique, ergne, ernol, *erroneos, esberucier, *escalot, escanbot, escoïz, escolastre, escun, escuruel, esmaiole, esnual, esophoire, espaer, *espagnol, espasme, espesche, espit, espoillier, esquiter, essaboïr, essechon, essel, estaberge, estaim, estipot, estor2, estraiment, etheroclite, etrivaine, eube, eubulie, euchariste, eustocie, eviscerer, excentrique, exeques, expletif, extasie.

D. Essays and Articles
  1. From “the mouth that can eat without anything getting in the way” to “hell.” A philological note on line 2991 of *Besant de Dieu*, in: *Travaux de Linguistique et de Philologie* 30 (1992) 65–67.
  2. "Du vit et de la coille," in: Revue de Linguistique Romane 59 (1995), 131–135.
  3. "The FEW and the DEAF: A Contrastive Analysis," in: Cahiers de lexicologie 69 (1996), 145–157.
  4. "Toward a Philological Interpretation of Old French Motet Texts," in: M.-D. Gleßgen and F. Lebsanft (eds.), Old and New Philology, Tübingen 1997, 189–200.
  5. "Early Examples of French Grammatical Terminology," in: Travaux de Linguistique et de Philologie 37 (1999), 123–129.
  6. Individual signed articles in K. Baldinger, *Etymologien. Untersuchungen zu FEW 21–23*, vol. 1, Tübingen (Niemeyer) 1988 (ZrP-Beih. 218), vol. 2, 1998 (288), vol. 3 (2003) (315): 447; 674; 676; 1291; 1323; 1501; 2675; 2752; 2991; 3012; 3194; 3264; 3509; 3583; 3592; 3617; 3642; 3700; 3724; 4264; 4309; 4446; 4489; 4536; 4560; 4954; 5133; 5443; 5485.
  7. "The Asterisked Words in Godefroy's Lexicon," in: Proceedings of the Frédéric Godefroy Symposium, ed. Frédéric Duval, Paris 2003, pp. 207–278.
  8. Two fragments of the lost Old French heroic epic *Chanson de Croissant*; in:*Preservation and Research: A Festschrift for Kurt Hans Staub on His 70th Birthday*, ed. by Wolfgang Schmitz, Michelstadt 2003, 282–305.
  9. "On the Treatment of Euphemisms in Historical French Lexicography," in: Historical Semantics in the Romance Languages, ed. by Franz Lebsanft and Martin-Dietrich Gleßgen, Tübingen 2004, 129–139.
  10. Nor is there any need for everything to be understandable to everyone (J. Grimm). Observations on the Compilation and Presentation of the Etymological Entries in the Computerized Treasury of the French Language, in: Buchi (Éva) (ed.), Proceedings of the Study Day “Historical French Lexicography: On the Update of the Etymological Entries in the Trésor de la langue française informatisé” (Nancy/ATILF, November 4, 2005), Nancy, ATILF (CNRS/Université Nancy 2/UHP), electronic publication), 2006, 6 pages.
  11. "The Translator as Creator of Neologisms: The Case of Nicole Oresme," in: Proceedings of the Symposium on Scientific and Technical Lexicons, ed. by O. Bertrand, H. Gerner, and B. Stumpf, Editions de l'Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau 2007, 47–61.
  12. Two fragments from the lost chanson de geste *Chanson de Croissant*, in: *Romania* 125 (2007), 213–228.
  13. (with Éva Buchi) The Pragmaticalization of the Adverb "Enfin" from the Perspective of Romance Linguists ("Finally, from the perspective of French linguists who conduct their research within the framework of Romance linguistics"), in: World Congress of French Linguistics (Paris, July 9–12, 2008). Collection of abstracts, CD-ROM of proceedings, ed. by J. Durand, B. Habert, B. Laks, Paris (Institut de linguistique française), 159–171.
  14. “Le pardon du foutre” – an Old French anticlerical satire, in: Mélanges Gilles Roques [in press].
  15. Why a Lady Lost Her Nose in Marie de France. On Line 235 of the Lai "Bisclavret," in *Fruits of the Tree of Knowledge: A Festschrift for the Research Associates*, eds. Ditte Bandini and Ulrich Kronauer, Heidelberg (Universitätsverlag Winter) 2009, 435–442.
  16. Etymological Dictionary of Old French (DEAF) - Old French Etymological Dictionary, in The Research Projects of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , eds. Volker Sellin, Eike Wolgast, and Sebastian Zwies, Heidelberg (Universitätsverlag Winter) 2009, 179–184.
  17. (with Sabine Tittel) How Painful Is the Tightrope Walk? Reflections on Scholarly Lexicography in the Early 21st Century: The Case of the DEAF, lecture delivered on September 5, 2009, as part of the "6th Working Meeting of German-Language Academy Dictionaries," September 3–5, 2009, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities; electronic publication under "German Dictionary by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm (DWB)" as a PDF file.
  18. Evolutionary Lexicography: The Case of the History of the *Dictionnaire du Moyen Français*, in: *Zeitschrift für französische Sprache und Literatur*, 120 (2010), 1–13.
  19. ...And they enriched one another. Observations on the Interactions Between Medieval Latin and Medieval French, in: Lexical Influences from Other Languages on Medieval Latin, eds. Maurilio Pérez González and Estrella Pérez Rodríguez, Valladolid (University of Valladolid) – León (University of León) 2011, 299–317 [PDF file].
  20. [with Francine Mora, Marylène Possamaï-Pérez, and Richard Trachsler] Ab ovo: The Manuscripts of the *Ovidemoralisé*: The Birth and Survival of a Text, in: *Romance Philology* 65 (2011) 121–142 [PDF file].
  21. The Treatment of Anglo-Normanisms in the Dictionnaire étymologique de l'ancien français (DEAF), in: Trotter, David (ed.): Present and Future Research in Anglo-Norman / La recherche actuelle et future sur l’anglo-normand: Proceedings of the Aberystwyth Colloquium, July 2011 / Actes du Colloque d’Aberystwyth, juillet 2011, Aberystwyth (Anglo-Norman Online Hub), 2012, 179–185.
  22. "On the Impossibility of Writing a Dictionary of Old French," in: Stephen Dörr / Thomas Städtler (eds.), Ki bien voldreit raisun entendre. Mélanges in Honor of Frankwalt Möhren’s 70th Birthday, Strasbourg (Éditions de linguistique et de philologie) 2012 (Bibliothèque de Linguistique Romane 9), 247–258.
  23. Reflections on Text Type and Discourse Tradition in the Description of Text Corpora and Their Relevance to Lexicographical Research, in: Ingelore Hafemann (ed.), Perspectives on Corpus-Based Historical Linguistics and Philology: International Conference of the Academy Project “Dictionary of Ancient Egyptian” at the BBAW, December 12–13, 2011 (Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae 4), Berlin (Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities) 2013, 385–393 [PDF file].
  24. Toward a Reconciliation of Theory and Practice: The Case of Historical Semantics, in: Buchi, Éva et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the 27th International Congress of Romance Linguistics and Philology (Nancy, July 15–20, 2013), Vol. I, Nancy (ATILF) 2016, 87–100. [PDF file].
  25. "Regional French in a Latin Context after 1100," in: Glessgen, Martin / Trotter, David (eds.), Lexical Regionalism in Medieval French, Strasbourg (ÉLiPhi) 2016, 269–286.
  26. The rest is not silence, but something more—but what exactly? Afr. sorplus, in: Anna-Susan Franke, Vicente Álvarez-Vivez (eds.), Romaniae Pontes. Contributions to Language in Gallo- and Iberoromania, Berlin (Peter Lang) 2018, 351–363.
  27. [with Yan Greub] “Le lexique de l’Ovide Moralisé,” in Craig Baker, Marianne Besseyre, Mattia Cavagna et al. (eds.), Ovide Moralisé, Book I, Paris (F. Paillart) 2018 (Société des Anciens Textes Français), vol. 1, pp. 169–181.
  28. "Lexicography in Germany" [translated by Félix Valentín Bugueño Miranda], in: Bugueño Miranda, Félix Valentín, and Laura Campos de Borba (eds.), Manual of (Meta)Lexicography, Goiânia, Goiás (Editora Espaço Acadêmico), 2019, 113–118.
E. Meetings and Notices
  1. Michael A. Covington, *Syntactic Theory in the High Middle Ages: Modistic Models of Sentence Structure*, Cambridge (Cambridge University Press) 1984, 163 pp.; *Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie* 102 (1986) 639–641.
  2. Irène Rosier, *La grammaire spéculative des Modistes*, Lille (Presses Universitaires de Lille) 1983, 223 pp.; *Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie* 103 (1987) 126–127.
  3. Bernhard Bischoff, Paleography of Roman Antiquity and the Western Middle Ages, 2nd revised edition (Fundamentals of German Studies, 24), Berlin (Erich Schmidt) 1986, 377 pp.; Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie 103 (1987) 601.
  4. Nelly Andrieux-Reix, *Ancien français, Fiches et vocabulaire* (Etudes littéraires, 17), Paris (Presses Universitaires) 1987, 248 pp.; *Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie* 104 (1988) 539–540.
  5. Tobler-Lommatzsch, Dictionary of Old French. Materials left by Adolf Tobler, edited and published by Erhard Lommatzsch, continued by Hans Helmut Christmann, 88th installment, First installment of Volume 11, U–venteler, Wiesbaden (Steiner) 1989, col. 1–192; Vox Romanica 49/50 (1990/91) 524–527.
  6. French Etymological Dictionary. A Survey of the Gallo-Roman Lexicon, by Walther v. Wartburg (+), edited by Jean-Pierre Chambon, fasc. no. 151, vol. XXV (revised edition of vol. I), aspergere - *assulare2, pp. 481–576, Basel (Zbinden) 1990; Revue de Linguistique Romane 55 (1991) 547–551.
  7. *Le Roman des Sept Sages de Rome*. A Critical Edition of the Two Verse Redactions of a Twelfth-Century Romance, edited by Mary B. Speer, Lexington, Kentucky (French Forum, Publishers) 1989, 398 pp.; *Revue de Linguistique Romane* 55 (1991) 607–608.
  8. Chrétien, *Guillaume d'Angleterre*, critical edition by A.J. Holden (Textes Littéraires Français, 360), Geneva (Droz) 1988, 237 pp.; *Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie* 107 (1991) 201–203.
  9. Gautier d'Arras, Ille et Galeron, ed. Yves Lefèvre, Paris (Champion) 1988, 257 pp.; Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie 107 (1991) 481–484.
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F. Translations
  1. [with Pia Keßler, Birgit Röthinger] Karin Lievens, The Fifth Floor of Joy: Three Years with the Guerrillas in El Salvador [ K.L., El quinto piso de la alegría, Cologne (Ediciones Sistema Radio Venceremos) 1988], Hamburg 1989.
  2. [with Pia Keßler, Roswitha Richter] Jacques Barrau, Drawings from a Camp. The Neckarelz Concentration Camp Satellite Camp [J.B., Dessins d’un camp. Le camp de Neckarelz, Karlsruhe (Michael Schmid Publishers) 1992], Karlsruhe 1992.
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