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Wolfgang Wölck

Dr. Wolf Wolck is a Distinguished Service Professor, Emeritus. Dr. Wolck, Professor, received his D.Phil. in English and Linguistics from the University of Frankfurt. He has studied diglossia between dialects and standards in Germany and Scotland, directed the Survey of Quechua-Spanish Bilingualism in Peru and the Buffalo Ethnolects Project. He is engaged in the third phase of a longitudinal survey of Quechua-Spanish bilingualism, and has recently been appointed to a committee for minority language research within the European Community. He has taught at institutions in Belgium, Britain, Germany and Peru, whose National University awarded him an honorary degree in 1972. He was on the faculty of the LSA Institutes in 1971 and 1976 and was appointed Research Professor at the Research Center on Multilingualism by the Belgian National Science Foundation in 1991. He is the author of Phonematische Analyse der Sprache von Buchan, Pequeno Breviario Quechua, co-author of Interkulturelle Mehrsprachigkeit, editor of The Social Dimension of Dialectology and The International Handbook of Contact Linguistics and serves on the editorial boards of the journals Lexis and Multilingua.