Henri Frei

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Henri Frei (born June 5, 1899 in Baar ZG ; † January 14, 1980 ) was a Swiss Indo-Europeanist , Japanologist , Sinologist , Orientalist , linguist and Romance scholar .

life and work

Freely studied linguistics in Geneva (graduated in 1921) and at the École nationale des langues orientales in Paris (graduated in Japanese and Indian in 1926). He received his doctorate in Geneva in 1929 with Charles Bally with La grammaire des fautes. Introduction à la linguistique fonctionnelle, assimilation et différenciation, brièveté et invariabilité, expressivité (Paris / Geneva 1929, reprint Geneva 1971, 1982, 1993, Rennes 2003, Japanese: Tokyo 1973, Russian: Moscow 2007). This work, which is famous among experts, helped the realization that the linguistic 'error' is usually not nonsensical, but logically and systematically justified. From 1933 to 1939 Frei taught in Beijing, Tokyo and Hong Kong, from 1940 at the University of Geneva as the successor to Charles Bally, from 1945 until his retirement in 1969 as a full professor of general linguistics (as successor to Albert Sechehaye ). From 1957 to 1972 he was co-editor of the magazine Cahiers Ferdinand de Saussure .

Other works

  • In memoriam Charles Bally (4 février 1865-10 avril 1947), in: Lingua 1, 1947/48, pp. 130-132
  • Le livre des deux mille phrases , Geneva 1953, 1966, Japanese: Tokyo 1971, English: Geneva 1978, Chinese: Beijing 1982

literature

  • Mélanges de linguistique offerts à Henri Frei . In: Cahiers Ferdinand de Saussure. Revue de linguistique générale , vol. 25/26 (1969), ISSN  0068-516X .
  • Robert Godel, René Amacker: Henri Frei . In: Cahiers Ferdinand de Saussure. Revue de linguistique générale , Vol. 34 (1980), pp. 117-144, ISSN  0068-516X .
  • Dan Savatovsky: Henri Frei . In: Haro Stammerjohann (Ed.): Lexicon grammaticorum. A bio-bibliographical companion to the history of linguistics . Niemeyer Verlag, Tübingen 2009. ISBN 978-3-484-73068-7 (2 volumes).
  • Maria Iliescu : Henri Frei . In: Jakob Wüest (Ed.): Les linguistes suisses et la variation linguistique . Francke Verlag, Basel 1997, ISBN 3-7720-2052-6 , pp. 45-55.
  • Françoise Helgorsky: La grammaire des fautes de Henri Frei . In: Le français modern. Revue de linguistique française , Vol. 41 (1973), pp. 423-428, ISSN  0015-9409 .
  • René Amacker: La sintagmatica saussuriana di Henri Frei . In: La Sintassi. Atti del III Convegno Internazionale di Studi, Roma, 17-18 maggio 1969 . Bulzoni, Rome 1970, pp. 45-111.
  • René Amacker: Charles Bally juge de la Grammaire des fautes d'Henri Frei . In: Cahiers Ferdinand de Saussure , Vol. 54 (2001), pp. 5-20, ISSN  0068-516X .

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Individual evidence

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