Hansjakob Seiler was born on December 16, 1920 in Munich. After an unusually long productive period, he died on August 13, 2018 in Lucerne. He is mourned by his wife and a large family, and missed by numerous colleagues and former students worldwide. A child of Swiss parents, one a professor of zoology and the other a concert singer, Hansjakob Seiler started his university studies at Zürich university. There being no general linguistics there, he studied Indo-European linguistics with Manu Leumann and earned a PhD with a dissertation on Greek morphology. His expertise in Ancient and Modern Greek is evident throughout his oeuvre. During his stay in Paris (1947–1950), he chose Émile Benveniste as his mentor, sitting in the same colloquia as his chronologically close peer Gilbert Lazard. Much later, both he and Lazard started large research projects based on typological comparison and partly focusing the same grammatical domain (“participation” and “actancy”, respectively). Although these projects ran in parallel for quite a few years, cooperation between them remained limited. With Benveniste as his supervisor, it became ever clearer to Seiler that the epistemic interest of historical-comparative linguistics targets the particular, while

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itu告：汉斯雅各布·席勒（1920–2018）

Hansjakob Seiler于1920年12月16日出生于慕尼黑。经过异常长的生产期后，他于2018年8月13日在卢塞恩去世。他的妻子和一个大家庭为他哀悼，世界各地的许多同事和以前的学生都怀念他。汉斯雅各布·塞勒（Hansjakob Seiler）是瑞士父母的孩子，一个是动物学教授，另一个是演唱歌手，他在苏黎世大学开始了大学学习。那里没有通用语言学，他与Manu Leumann研究了印欧语言学，并获得了有关希腊形态学的博士学位。在整个作品中，他对古希腊和现代希腊语的专长显而易见。在巴黎逗留期间（1947年至1950年），他选择埃米尔·本韦尼斯特（ÉmileBenveniste）作为他的导师，与按时间顺序排列的同伴吉尔伯特·拉扎德（Gilbert Lazard）坐在同一个座谈会上。很久以后，他和Lazard都基于类型比较开始了大型的研究项目，并部分关注了相同的语法领域（分别为“参与”和“行为”）。尽管这些项目并行运行了很多年，但它们之间的合作仍然有限。在本芬尼斯（Benveniste）担任主管的情况下，塞勒（Seiler）变得越来越清楚，历史比较语言学的认识论兴趣针对的是特定对象，而