Hans Marchand

Hans Marchand (Krefeld, 1 October 1907 – Genoa, 13 December 1978 ) was a German linguist. He studied Romance languages, English and Latin, and after fleeing Germany in 1934 was a lecturer of linguistics at Istanbul, Yale University, and Bard College. From 1957 to 1973 he was a professor at the University of Tübingen. but became famous in his discipline for his theories on word-formation in the English language. Linguists following his approach are called Marchandeans.

Marchand wrote much of what would become The Categories and Types of Present-Day English Word-Formation (1960) "while in internal exile in Turkey in an Anatolian village from 1944 to 1945, under threat of repatriation to Germany". a "milestone monograph", a "monumental volume . . . likely to continue to be widely used as a reference book".

Publications The Categories and Types of Present-Day English Word-Formation. A Synchronic-Diachronic Approach. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1960. At the Internet Archive. 2nd edition, Handbücher das Studium der Anglistik. Munich: C. H. Beck, 1969. At the Internet Archive.