Prof. Dr. Guido Mensching

Professor of Romance Linguistics

Main research interests

Generative grammar, especially minimalist syntax of the Romance languages
Medieval medical-botanical texts in the Romance languages (Spanish, Catalan, Occitan, especially in Hebrew script)
Sardinian: history, structure and multimedia representation

Third-party funded projects
2001-2004
"Edition and analysis of Middle-Hebrew medical synonym lists with romance, latin and arabic elements", DFG-funded, in collaboration with G. Bos (Jewish studies, Cologne).
2004-2007
"Textkritik, Edition, Analyse und philologische Kommentierung einer altokzitanischen Synonymenliste in hebräischer Graphie mit romanischen, lateinischen, arabischen, biblisch- und rabbinisch-hebräischen Elementen" [Textual criticism, edition, analysis and philological commentary of an Old Occitan synonym list in Hebrew graphy with Romance, Latin, Arabic, Biblical and Rabbinic-Hebrew elements], DFG-funded, in collaboration with G. Bos (Jewish studies, Cologne).
2009-2010
"Ibn al-Jazzar aus Kairouan: Zad al-musafir wa-qut al-hadir. Kritische Edition des arabischen Textes und der hebräischen Übersetzung unter Berücksichtigung altokzitanischer Elemente" [Ibn al-Jazzar from Kairouan: Zad al-musafir wa-qut al-hadir. Critical edition of the Arabic text and the Hebrew translation, considering Old Occitan elements], DFG-funded, in collaboration with G. Bos (Jewish studies, Cologne).
2009-2012
Übereinzelsprachlich gültige Formalisierung grundlegender syntaktischer Eigenschaften romanischer Sprachen im Rahmen des minimalistischen Programms" [Formalisation of basic syntactic properties of Romance languages valid across languages within the framework of the minimalist programme], DFG-funded, in collaboration with E. Remberger (Romance studies, Konstanz).
2009-2016
"Critical edition of a medieval medico-botanical glossary (Ibero-Romance / Arabic) in Hebrew characters (manuscript Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cod. hebr. 87, Folios 127v-130r)", DFG-funded, in collaboration with G. Bos (Jewish studies, Cologne).
2011-2019
"An XML-based Information System for Old Occitan Medical Terminology", DFG-funded, in collaboration with G. Bos (Jewish studies, Cologne), M.S. Corradini (University of Pisa) and A. Bozzi (CNR Pisa).
2013-2019
"A first critical edition of the Kitab at-Talkhis by Marwan ibn Ganah, with English translation, commentary and analysis of the Ibero-Romance lexicon", DFG-funded, in collaboration with G. Bos (Jewish studies, Cologne) und J.C. Villaverde Amieva (Romance studies, Oviedo).
2015-2018
"Long-distance Dependencies in French: Comparative Analyses (HPSG and the Minimalist Program)", DFG-funded, in collaboration with St. Müller (German studies, HU Berlin).
2015-2022
"Quantification in Old Italian", DFG-funded, in collaboration with C. Poletto (Frankfurt).
2020-2023
"A 15th-century medico-botanical synonym list in Hebrew characters from central Italy", DFG-funded, in collaboration with G. Bos (Jewish studies, Cologne) and F. Savelsberg (Romance studies, Göttingen).