Hans Marchand (Krefeld, 1 October 1907 – Genoa, 13 December 1978[1]) was a German linguist.
He studied Romance languages, English and Latin, and after fleeing Germany during the Third Reich was a lecturer of linguistics at Istanbul, Yale University, and Bard College.
[1] Marchand published works on linguistic phenomena occurring in languages such as English, French, Turkish and Italian,[2] but became famous in his discipline for his theories on word-formation in the English language.
Linguists following his approach are called Marchandeans.
[3] Decades after the publication in 1969 of the second (and much more widely cited) edition of Marchand's The Categories and Types of Present-Day English Word-Formation, it was still being cited approvingly in the morphology literature: a "meticulous volume",[4] a "milestone monograph",[5] a "monumental volume .