Jean Séguy (Romanist)

Jean Séguy (* 1914 ; † 1973 ) was a French linguist, Romance scholar , Occitanist , gas cognist and dialectologist .

life and work

Séguy completed his habilitation in Toulouse in 1948 with the two theses Les Noms populaires des plantes dans les Pyrénées centrales (Barcelona 1953) and Le français parlé à Toulouse (Toulouse 1950, 1978) and took over the chair in Romance philology from Henri Gavel , which he also wrote in Romance Renamed Linguistics and Philology. Together with his students Xavier Ravier (* 1930) and Jacques Allières (1929-2000), Séguy worked until his death on the Atlas linguistique et ethnographique de la Gascogne (6 vols., Paris 1954-1973) and developed a theory of dialectometry .

Other works

• (Ed. With Xavier Ravier) Poèmes chantés des Pyrénées gasconnes, Paris 1978

literature

• Homage to Jean Séguy, 2 vols., Toulouse 1978 (Via Domitia 14)
• Hans Goebl : Why dialectometry could only arise in a (is) Romanesque research context, in: What can a comparative Romance linguistics (still) achieve today?, Ed. by Wolfgang Dahmen et al., Tübingen 2006, pp. 291–305 (here: 301–302)

Web links

• http://w3.letmod.univ-tlse2.fr/occitan/index.php?page=7 (with picture)