Alphonse Juilland

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Alphonse G. Juilland (born October 5, 1922 in Bucharest , † June 30, 2000 in Stanford , California, USA) was a Romanian Romance studies and linguist with a French doctorate who worked as a university professor in the United States.

life and work

Juilland grew up in Switzerland, studied in Bucharest , later in Paris and went to Columbia University with André Martinet in 1947 . He received his doctorate in Paris in 1951 under Jean Boutière on L 'argot roumain. Etude générale (in: Cahiers Sextil Pușcariu 1, 1952). He then taught at the University of Washington and the University of Pennsylvania . In 1961 he went to the Department of French and Italian at Stanford University and was its director from 1973 to 1979 and from 1982 to 1984. From 1978 until his retirement in 1989 he was the holder of the William Hartshorn Bonsall Chair, from 1980 a colleague of René Girard , from 1984 a colleague of Michel Serres .

Juilland founded the magazines Cahiers Sextil Puşcariu (Seattle 1952–1953), Stanford French Review (1977 ff.), Stanford Italian Review (1979 ff.) And Stanford Literature Review (1984 ff.), As well as the publishers Anma Libri (Saratoga, California ) and Montparnasse Publications (Stanford).

Juilland was one of Emil Cioran's friends . He was one of the French translators of Mircea Eliades Traité d'histoire des religions (Paris 1949). He translated Karl Vossler's book France's culture and language (1929) into French ( Langue et culture de la France. Histoire du français littéraire des origines à nos jours , Paris 1953).

In 1988 Juilland found Elizabeth Craig (1902–1989) in the United States, the addressee of the dedication of Louis-Ferdinand Céline's novel Voyage au bout de la nuit .

Juilland held several veteran athletics world records and wrote books on athletics.

Other works

Dictionaries

  • Frequency Dictionary of Spanish Words (with Eugene Chang-Rodriguez), Den Haag / Paris 1964
  • Dictionnaire inverse de la langue française, London / The Hague / Paris 1965
  • Frequency Dictionary of Rumanian Words (with Paul Max Edwards and Ica Ileana Juilland), London / Den Haag / Paris 1966
  • Frequency Dictionary of French Words (with Dorothy Brodin and Catherine Davidovitch), The Hague / Paris 1970
  • Frequency Dictionary of Italian Words (with Vincenzo Traversa), Den Haag / Paris 1973

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  • Les verbes de Celine. Première partie: étude d'ensemble. Deuxième partie: glossaire AD. Troisième partie: glossaire EL. Quatrième partie: glossaire MP, 4 vols., Saratoga, Calif. 1985, 1988, 1989, 1990
  • Celine's Letters to Elizabeth Craig, Stanford, Calif. 1990
  • A Célinian Trove. Elizabeth Craig's Jewelry Box, Stanford, Calif. 1991
  • Elizabeth and Louis. Elizabeth Craig Talks About Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Stanford, Calif. 1991 (French Paris 1994)
  • Les Adjectifs de Celine. Première Partie: Introduction et Glossaire AC, Stanford, Calif. 1992

Publication of Festschriften

  • Linguistic Studies Presented to André Martinet on the Occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday, 3 vol., New York 1967, 1969, 1970
  • Linguistic Studies Offered to Joseph Greenberg , on the Occasion of his Sixtieth Birthday. First Volume: General Linguistics. Second Volume: Phonology. Third volume: syntax. 3 vols., Saratoga, Calif. 1976
  • To Honor René Girard , Saratoga, Calif. 1986

Linguistics in general

  • Essai pour une histoire structurale du phonétisme français (with André-Georges Haudricourt ) [foreword by André Martinet ], Paris 1949, The Hague / Paris 1970
  • Structural Relations. Outline of a General Theory, The Hague 1961
  • The English Verb System (with James Macris), The Hague 1962
  • Louisiana French Grammar. Phonology, Morphology and Syntax (with Marilyn Conwell), The Hague-Paris 1963
  • Class and Classification in Linguistics (with Hans Heinrich Lieb), The Hague-Paris 1968
  • The Rumanian Verb System (with Paul Max Edwards), The Hague / Paris 1971
  • The Linguistic Concept of Word. Analytic Bibliography (with Alexandra Roceric), The Hague / Paris 1972
  • The Decline of the Word (with Alexandra Roceric), Saratoga, Calif. 1975
  • Transformational and Structural Morphology. About Two Rival Approaches to the Rumanian Verb System, Saratoga, Calif. 1978
  • Structural and Transformational Phonology, Saratoga, Calif. 1979
  • The Enigma of Gypsy Philology. How the Romanians Gave Gypsies their Name, Stanford, Calif. 1995

athletics

  • The Men's Mile, Stanford, Calif. 1993
  • The Future of Track and Field, Stanford, Calif. 1993
  • Twelve Irreverent Letters on Track and Field, Stanford, Calif. 1995
  • Around the Foundations of Track and Field. An Acrimonious Debate with Myself, Stanford, Calif. 1996
  • Track and Field on Trial. An Acrimonious Debate with Myself, Stanford, Calif. 1998

literature

  • Alphonse Juilland. D'une passion l'autre, ed. by Brigitte Cazelles and René Girard, Saratoga 1987
  • Jeanne Martinet in: La Linguistique 37, 2001, p. 160

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personal data
SURNAME Juilland, Alphonse
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Juilland, Alphonse G.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian Romance studies scholar, linguist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Bucharest
DATE OF DEATH June 30, 2000
Place of death Stanford , California, USA