While most people find grammar a yawn, Sofian Bouaouina found it a source of fascination. This led him from the village of Diegten to the University of Basel, where he initially studied to be a secondary school teacher in French and history, before developing a taste for linguistics.
Lorenza Mondada, Professor of French and General Linguistics at the University of Basel, has received an honorary doctorate from the University of Helsinki in recognition of her scholarly work.
The linguist Lorenza Mondada, Professor of General and French Linguistics at the University of Basel, has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Linköping University in Sweden.