Léon Warnant
Léon Warnant (born March 13, 1919 in Oreye , † April 30, 1996 in Liège ) was a Belgian Romanist and Walloon writer.
life and work
Warnant studied with Louis Remacle (1910-1997). He was a professor of French linguistics in Liège. In 1984 he retired.
Warnant also excelled as a writer of poetry and plays in the Walloon language.
Linguistic works
- La culture en Hesbaye liégeoise. Etude ethnographique et dialectologique, Brussels 1949
- Études phonétiques sur le parler wallon d'Oreye, Liège 1953
- La Constitution phonique du mot wallon, étude fondée sur le parler d'Oreye (Hesbaye liégeoise), Paris 1956
- Dictionnaire de la prononciation française dans sa norme actuelle, 4th edition, Paris / Gembloux 1987, 117 + 989 pages (Les mots de la langue, pp. 1–684; Les noms propres, pp. 687–974; part of the genre first Gembloux 1962 , 42 + 414 pages, 2nd edition 1964; personal name part first Gembloux 1966, 27 + 236 pages; 3rd edition, both parts in one volume, 1968, 51 + 654 pages)
- Dictionnaire des rimes orales et écrites, Paris 1973, 17 + 554 pages (from 1992: 60 + 572 pages, from 2001 under the title: Dictionnaire des rimes)
- Structure syntaxique du français. Essai de cinéto-syntaxe, Paris 1982
- Précis de cinéto-syntaxe, langue française, Paris 1984
- Orthographe et prononciation du français. Les 12 000 mots qui ne se prononcent pas comme ils s'écrivent (together with Louis Chalon), Louvain-la-Neuve 1996, 2nd edition, Brussels 2006
Web links
- Literature by and about Léon Warnant in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Warnant, Léon |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian Romanist and Walloon writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 13, 1919 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oreye |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 30, 1996 |
| Place of death | Liege |