Germanic Languages
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Martin Durrell is presently the Henry Simon Professor of German, University of Manchester. He was awarded his diploma in general linguistics by the University of Manchester in 1965, and he studied at the Deutscher Sprachatlas at the University of Marburg, Germany, from 1965 to 1967, graduating with a D.Phil. in 1970. He has taught at the University of Manchester since 1967. He has authored a number of books and articles on German grammar and German sociolinguistics, including Hammer's German grammar and usage (Arnold, 2002). He has served as honorary treasurer of the Philological Society since 1995; has been a member of the International Academic Council of the Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim, since 1998; and was elected as a member of the committee (Ausschuss) of the Internationaler Verein für Germanische Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft (IVG) in 1995, becoming vice-president in 2004. He was presented with the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany 2002.