Antonin Duraffour
Antonin Duraffour (born June 4, 1879 in Le Plantay, Département Ain , † December 1, 1956 in Saint-Égrève ) was a French Romance studies and dialectologist.
life and work
Duraffour spent his childhood in Vaux-en-Bugey and attended high school in Bourg-en-Bresse . He first studied German in Paris, passed the Agrégation in 1894 and was a high school teacher in Gap and Avignon. From 1920 he taught at the University of Grenoble , first as a Chargé de cours, and founded the Institute for Phonetics with a focus on dialectology. In 1932 he completed his habilitation in Paris with the two Thèses Phénomènes généraux d'évolution phonétique dans les dialectes franco-provençaux d'après le parler de Vaux-en-Bugey (Ain) (Grenoble 1932) and Description morphologique avec notes syntaxiques du parler franco- provençal de Vaux (Ain) en 1919-1931 (Grenoble 1932) and became a professor at the University of Grenoble. There his most important pupil was Pierre Gardette . From 1935 to 1939 he was co-editor of the magazine Revue de linguistique romane . From 1936 to 1939 he had Algirdas Julien Greimas as a student.
Other works
- Matériaux phonétiques et lexicologiques pour servir à l'histoire du parler de Vaux-en-Bugey (Ain). Grenoble 1930
- with André Devaux & Pierre Gardette : Les patois du Dauphiné. Lyon 1935
- with André Devaux & Pierre Gardette: Dictionnaire des patois des Terres Froides. Mâcon 1935
- with André Devaux & Pierre Gardette: Atlas linguistique des Terres Froides. Lyon 1935
- Lexique patois-français du parler de Vaux-en-Bugey (Ain), 1919-1940. 2 vols. Grenoble 1941–1942
- (posthumously): Glossaire des patois francoprovençaux. Edited by Laure Malapert and Marguerite Gonon, ud L. by Pierre Gardette. Paris 1969
literature
- Mélanges A. Duraffour. Homage offert par ses amis et ses élèves, 4 juin 1939. Paris 1939 (with list of publications)
- Walther Wartburg, Hans-Erich Keller & Robert Geuljans: Bibliography des dictionnaires patois galloromans 1550-1967. Geneva 1969, pp. 217-218
Web links
- http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/crai_0065-0536_1956_num_100_4_10680 (obituary by Mario Roques )
- Literature by and about Antonin Duraffour in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- Information on Antonin Duraffour in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Duraffour, Antonin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French Romance studies and dialectologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 4, 1879 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Le Plantay , Ain department |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1st December 1956 |
| Place of death | Saint-Égrève |