Philipps-Universität de Marburg, Marburg, Germany
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-4260-1997
Sebastian Greusslich earned his undergraduate degree (Magister Artium) in Romance philology, with specialization in Spanish linguistics, and his doctoral degree in the same field, from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany. His dissertation was a philological discourse analysis of Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas and the corpus of New World historiography of the Spanish Golden Age. This project also led to the monograph “Text, Autor und Wissen in der historiografía indiana der Frühen Neuzeit. Die Décadas von Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas,” which received the special prize of the Münchener Universitätsgesellschaft.
He served for eight years as research professor of Romance linguistics at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn, Germany, where his activities included writing a Habilitation thesis on the problems of attribution in French and other languages. He is currently a visiting professor at the Philipps-Universität de Marburg.
His research interests include the history of the Spanish language on both sides of the Atlantic, in particular its textual and discursive history, as well as the history of linguistic ideas and their reflection in description and codification. His publications on these topics include “Philologie als Kulturwissenschaft, reflexive Interdisziplinarität und Sprachgeschichte – zwei Fallbeispiele” (2015, Homenaje Franz Lebsanft) and “Procesos de estandardización y prescriptivismo en la historia del español” (2023, Oxford Handbook of Historical Linguistics).
He is also interested in the pluricentricity of Spanish linguistic culture and the emergence of its paradigm for conceptualizing the dialectic of unity and variation of the language, as well as the different forms and degrees of its pluricentricity in different contexts. These interests have been addressed in “El pluricentrismo de la cultura lingüística hispánica: política lingüística, los estándares regionales y la cuestión de su codificación” (2015, Lexis), “The Pluricentricity of Spanish in the Americas: Current Perspectives on Variety Dominance, Standardization, and the Media” (2022), and the collaborative conference volume “El español, lengua pluricéntrica. Discurso, gramática, léxico y medios de comunicación masiva” (2020, with Franz Lebsanft).
Finally, as a scholar of Romance languages and in relation to his Habilitation thesis, he is researching the historical syntax of French and its relationship to textual history, and has published “Subjectification and Ausbau. The Case of French Attribut Évaluatif du COD – Marked and Unmarked” (2022, Romanische Forschungen).