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Rainer Franz is a Full Professor at the University of Economics and Business Administration, Vienna since 1993. Previously, he served as an Assistant Professor at the University of Salzburg (1981–1993) and completed his Habilitation in 1992. He earned his Doctorate in 1982. His research focuses on word formation, historical linguistics, lexicography, and Romance linguistics, with recent work expanding into the history of economic terminology.
Research Contributions: Franz is renowned for his seminal work Spanische Wortbildungslehre (1993), a foundational text in Spanish morphology. His collaborative work La formazione delle parole in italiano (2004) established Italian word-formation standards. Theoretical contributions include studies on productivity constraints, semantic change in agent nouns, and diachronic morphology. He recently explored the acquisition of German word-formation in Carmens Erwerb der deutschen Wortbildung (2010).
- Awards: 2010 Full Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences; 2010 Member of Academia Europaea; 1985 Premio Nicoletta Quinto (Pisa).
- Academic Leadership: Advised on terminology evolution across Romance languages, with current projects focusing on the metaphoric field of 'Liquid Money' in European languages.
Interdisciplinary Work: At Vienna, Franz diversified into economic terminology history, blending linguistics with business studies to analyze metaphorical lexical development in finance.
