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| Born | (1952-07-19) July 19, 1952 (age 72) Kaiserslautern, Germany |
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Gunter Senft (born 19th of July 1952 in Kaiserslautern) is a German linguist who specialised in Austronesian and Papuan languages.
Gunter senft max planck biography
He became known for his system linguistic, ethnolinguistic and cognitive linguistic research on the Trobriand Islanders in Papua New Guinea and their language Kilivila (also: Kiriwina, Boyowa). He is the first linguist who described the language grammatically and lexically.
Senft is internationally regarded as the expert for Kilivila which he speaks fluently. Since February 2018 he has been a guest researcher as Professor emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, where he had already worked from 1978 till 1981 a