Herbert Pilch is a German linguist and celtologist

Celtic Studies

Celtic studies is the academic discipline occupied with the study of any sort of cultural output relating to a Celtic people. This ranges from linguistics, literature and art history archaeology and history, the focus lying on the study of the various Celtic languages, living and extinct...

. He was a professor of English language and literature at the University of Freiburg in the Breisgau. His contributions to linguistics included a theory of phoneme

Phoneme

In a language or dialect, a phoneme is the smallest segmental unit of sound employed to form meaningful contrasts between utterances....

s and studies of Basel German

Basel German

Basel German or Baseldytsch is the dialect of the city of Basel, Switzerland. Among the Swiss German dialects, it is the only Low Alemannic one.- Aspirated plosives :...

. His main work is the Manual of English Phonetics. In 2008 he was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Works

• Phonemtheorie (Basel 1964)
• Empirical Linguistics (München 1976)
• Manual of English Phonetics (München 1994)
• Altenglischer Lehrgang + Altenglische Grammatik (München 1970)
• Sound, Sense, and System. Herbert Pilch and Postwar German Studies in English Linguistics (1955–1985) (Heidelberg 1987)