Claude Vandeloise

Claude Vandeloise (born October 2, 1944 in Liège ; † August 22, 2007 in Baton Rouge ) was an American Romanist and Frenchist of Belgian origin.

life and work

Vandeloise studied mathematics and linguistics in Liège, Paris VIII and at the University of California, San Diego . He received his doctorate in 1984 in San Diego with the thesis Description of space in French and in 1985 in Paris at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales by Gilles Fauconnier with the Thèse de 3e cycle Représentation linguistique du mouvement et de l'espace . In 1995 he completed his habilitation in Paris under the title “Conceptualisation de l'espace et description linguistique”.

After various teaching positions in Greece, among others, he was professor of linguistics at Louisiana State University in Bâton Rouge from 1988 until his retirement in 2006.

Vandeloise was a member of the editorial committee of Le Français Moderne magazine (2003).

Works

• Flippers stories , Crisnée 1977
• L'espace en français. Sémantique des propositions spatiales , Paris 1986 (English: Spatial proposition. A case study in French , Chicago 1991)
• (Ed.) L'expression du mouvement, in: Langue française 76, 1987
• (Ed.) Sémantique cognitive, in: Communications 53, 1991
• (Ed.) La couleur des prépositions, in: Langages 110, 1993
• (with Frank A. Anselmo) Introduction to French Linguistics , Munich 2001
• Aristote et le lexique de l'espace. Rencontre entre la linguistique cognitive et la physique grecque , Stanford 2002
• (Ed.) Langues et cognition , Paris 2003
• La dimension en français. De l'espace à la matière , Paris 2004
• De la distribution à la cognition , Paris 2006

literature

• Lucie Brind'amour and Jean-Marie Klinkenberg , “Claude Vandeloise (1944-2007)”, in: Le Français Moderne 77, 2009, pp. 286–287

Web links

• Literature by and about Claude Vandeloise in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Literature by and about Claude Vandeloise in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries )