Jørgen Rischel

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Jørgen Rischel (born 1934) is a Danish linguist who has worked extensively with different subjects in linguistics especially phonetics and phonology, lexicography and documention of endangered languages.

He holds a doctorate in linguistics. He has been a professor of linguistics at the University of Copenhagen but is now professor Emeritus. He is a specialist in the Greenlandic language of which he has published the most comprehensive phonological study (1974) to date. He has published extensively on topics in Danish, Faroese and Greenlandic particular phonetics and phonology. Recently he has focused on Mon-Khmer languages and he has done extensive fieldwork in Thailand on an endangered and previously undescribed dialect of the Khmuic language Mlabri. In 1991 he was knighted into Order of the Dannebrog by the Queen Margrethe II of Denmark. He is a member of the Royal Danish Academy of the Sciences. He has served as a co-editor of the linguistic Journal international Journal of American Linguistics.

[edit] Selected publications

• 1974, Topics in West Greenlandic Phonology. Copenhagen: Akademisk Forlag.
• 1972, Consonant Reduction in Faroese Noncompound Wordforms. In Firchow, E. S., Grimstad, K. Hasselmo, N. & W. A. O’Neil (eds.), Studies for Einar Haugen presented by Friends and Colleagues. 482-497.
• 1995, Minor Mlabri. A Hunter-Gatherer Language of Northern Indochina,ISBN 87-7289-294-3.
• 2004, Pan-dialectal databases: Mlabri, an oral Mon-Khmer language, Lexicography Conference, Chiangmai.
• In what sense is Mlabri a West Khmuic language?