Department of German and Dutch

Department of German and Dutch

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David Yeandle’s principal teaching interests are in the History of the German Language, from the earliest times to the present day.  He taught for over thirty years at King’s College London, where he was latterly Professor and Head of Department, before taking early retirement in 2010.  He has published widely on linguistic and medieval topics, including medieval literature and the sociolinguistics of German.  In addition to journal articles and essays he is the author of three books: Commentary on the Soltane and Jeschute Episodes in Book III of Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival (Winter, 1984); Frieden im ‘Neuen Deutschland’. Das Vokabular des ‘Friedenskampfes’ (Winter, 1991); ‘Schame’ im Alt- und Mittelhochdeutschen bis um 1210 (Winter, 2001).  He has co-edited and contributed to volumes on Old High German, lexicography and lexicology.  He was project leader and editor of the AHRC-funded line-by-line bibliography of Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival, the second edition of which was published online in 2008: Stellenbibliographie zum ‘Parzival’ Wolframs von Eschenbach für die Jahrgänge 1753-2004 (http://wolfram.lexcoll.com).  His inaugural lecture was published as a pamphlet in 2007: Are German Nouns Oversexed? – Gender Assignment in Foreign Imports to German: A Diachronic and Synchronic Perspective.

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