Alicja Sakaguchi


Alicja Sakaguchi is a linguist and university professor in the fields of Esperanto and interlinguistics.

Biography

Alicja Sakaguchi earned a master's degree after studying Hungarian and Esperantology at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest ; she completed her doctorate in 1982. From 1981 to 1985 she was a lecturer at the University of Paderborn, then from 1986 to 1998 at the Goethe University Frankfurt. She received her habilitation in 2000 after publishing a book on interlinguistics. From 2001 to 2002 she was assistant professor of modern languages at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań; since 2003 she has been a professor there, teaching interlinguistics, Esperanto, German and Intercultural [communication principles|intercultural communication].
She is married to Takashi Sakaguchi, a Japanese man whom she met through the Esperanto movement, and has two adult children, Dai and Leo, who are native [speakers of Esperanto]. Both sons were born in Mömbris in Germany, a town close to Frankfurt, where she was teaching at the time.

Selected works

  • "Rasmus Kristian Rasks Konzeption einer Welthilfssprache" in Historiographia Linguistica 16: 311–326.
  • Rasmus Christian Rask: Traktatu d'un Lingua universale.. Edited with commentary by Alicja Sakaguchi. Frankfurt: Lang, 1996.Interlinguistik: Gegenstand, Ziele, Aufgaben, Methoden Frankfurt: Lang, 1998.
  • "Einige Bemerkungen zur dreisprachigen Erziehung meiner Kinder" in Phänomene im semantisch-syntaktischen Grenzbereich: Materialien der internationalen Linguistenkonferenz Karpacz 27.9.-29, Leslaw Cirko and Martin Grimberg, September 2004.. Dresden: Neisse Verlag, p. 133-145.