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Vendryes, Joseph

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Vendryes, Joseph 

Born Jan. 13, 1875, in Paris; died there Jan. 30, 1960. French linguist. Specialist in general and Indo-European linguistics. Professor at the Sorbonne (1907).

Vendryes was a member of the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres (in Paris) and the foreign academies of Ireland, The Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, People’s Republic of Poland, and the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. Vendryes was an advocate of the so-called sociological school, whose point of view was reflected in his book Language: A Linguistic Introduction to History (1921; Russian translation, 1937). Latin, Greek, and the Celtic languages were his primary interests.

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Traité d’accentuation grecque. Paris, 1929.
Traité de grammaire comparée des langues classiques. Paris, 1924. (With A. Meillet.)
Choix d’études linguistiques et celtiques. Paris, 1952.


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