Alicja Sakaguchi (born 1954 in Szczecin) is a

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and university professor in the fields of Esperanto and

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Biography

Alicja Sakaguchi earned a master's degree after studying Hungarian and Esperantology at Eötvös Loránd University in

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(1974 to 1979); she completed her doctorate in 1982. From 1981 to 1985 she was a lecturer at the

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, then from 1986 to 1998 at the Goethe University Frankfurt. She received her habilitation in 2000 after publishing a book on

. From 2001 to 2002 she was assistant professor of

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; since 2003 she has been a professor there, teaching interlinguistics, Esperanto,

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and

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. She is married to Takashi Sakaguchi, a Japanese man whom she met through the

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, and has two adult children, Dai and Leo, who are native speakers of Esperanto. Both sons were born in Mömbris
Mia familio, meine Familie: Esperanto als Muttersprache
' ("My family: Esperanto as a mother tongue"), 29 April 2004. Retrieved 2009-07-26. in Germany, a town close to

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, where she was teaching at the time.

Selected works

* "Rasmus Kristian Rasks Konzeption einer Welthilfssprache" ("Rasmus Christian Rask's Concept of a Global Auxiliary Language") in ''Historiographia Linguistica'' (co-author with Heribert Rück, 1989) 16: 311–326. *

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: ''Traktatu d'un Lingua universale (Abhandlung über eine allgemeine Sprache/Traktato pri generala lingvo).'' ("Treatise on general linguistics", Part II of the manuscript "Optegnelser til en Pasigraphie" ("Records for a

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", 1823). Edited with commentary by Alicja Sakaguchi. Frankfurt: Lang, 1996. * ''Interlinguistik: Gegenstand, Ziele, Aufgaben, Methoden'' ("Interlinguistics: Purpose, objectives, tasks, methods") Frankfurt: Lang, 1998 (''Duisburger Arbeiten zur Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft'' 36). * "Einige Bemerkungen zur dreisprachigen Erziehung (Polnisch-Esperanto-Deutsch) meiner Kinder" ("Some comments on the trilingual education (Polish-Esperanto-German) of my children") in ''Phänomene im semantisch-syntaktischen Grenzbereich: Materialien der internationalen Linguistenkonferenz Karpacz 27.9.-29'', Leslaw Cirko and Martin Grimberg (eds.), September 2004. (Supplements to ''Orbis Linguarum'' 47). Dresden: Neisse Verlag, p. 133-145.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sakaguchi, Alicja 1954 births Living people Writers from Szczecin Linguists from Poland Women linguists Polish Esperantists Eötvös Loránd University alumni Paderborn University alumni Goethe University Frankfurt alumni Polish expatriates in Germany Polish expatriates in Hungary Polish women academics