Max Wheeler is a British
linguist noted for his work on the
Catalan language. He is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics of the
University of Sussex. His research into Catalan has primarily focused on
phonology and on change in
inflectional morphology.
He attended Pinner Grammar School before gaining his B.A. from
Corpus Christi College, Oxford in 1969.
He then received his
D.Phil
A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, Ph.D., or DPhil; Latin: or ') is the most common degree at the highest academic level awarded following a course of study. PhDs are awarded for programs across the whole breadth of academic fields. Because it is ...
in 1975 from
Queen's College, Oxford.
While undertaking research at Queen's College, he spent eighteen months studying Catalan language and culture at the
University of Barcelona.
He worked as a lecturer and later as senior lecturer in linguistics at the
University of Liverpool from 1973 until 1981. Wheeler then worked at the University of Sussex from 1989. From 1998 until 2007 he was the joint editor of the Journal of Catalan Studies.
He was appointed Professor of Linguistics in 2006 and Emeritus Professor of Linguistics upon his retirement in 2007.
Since his retirement, he divides his time between
Catalonia and the
Isle of Man.
He has published several articles on
Manx language grammar and texts, ranging from a survey of
grammatical gender of Manx, to an analysis of the
genitive case
In grammar, the genitive case (abbreviated ) is the grammatical case that marks a word, usually a noun, as modifying another word, also usually a noun—thus indicating an attributive relationship of one noun to the other noun. A genitive can al ...
in
Archibald Cregeen's 1838 ''A Dictionary of the Manks Language''.
He is also a director of ''Lingomann'', the Isle of Man branch of the
International Linguistics Olympiad.
References
1946 births
Living people
Linguists
Linguists from the United Kingdom
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