Maurice Grammont

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Maurice Grammont (born April 15, 1866 in Damprichard , † October 17, 1946 in Montpellier ) was a French Romance scholar , Indo-Europeanist , phonetician and dialectologist .

life and work

Grammont studied in Freiburg (with Rudolf Thurneysen ), Berlin (with Johannes Schmidt ) and Paris with ( Michel Bréal , Arsène Darmesteter, Jules Gilliéron, Gaston Paris , Henri d'Arbois de Jubainville and Ferdinand de Saussure ). He completed his habilitation with the writings La Dissimilation consonantique dans les langues indo-européennes et dans les langues romanes and De liquidis sonantibus indagationes aliquot (both Dijon 1895). From 1892 to 1895 he taught linguistics in Dijon , from 1895 to 1939 he held the chair for grammar and philology at the University of Montpellier . In Montpellier he founded the Laboratoire de phonétique expérimentale in 1905 (under the influence of the abbé Jean-Pierre Rousselot) and published the Revue des langues romanes . Antoine Meillet was his mentor and friend.

Other works

  • Le patois de la Franche-Montagne et en particulier de Damprichard (Franche-Comté), Paris 1901
  • Le Vers français, ses moyens d'expression, son harmonie , Paris 1904
  • Petit traité de versification française , Paris 1911
  • La prononciation française et comment se prononce le français , Paris 1913
  • Traité pratique de prononciation française , Paris 1914
  • Traite de phonétique , Paris 1933 [main work]
  • Phonétique du grec ancien , Lyon / Paris 1948
  • Essai de psychologie linguistique, style et poésie , Paris 1950

literature

  • Bertil Malmberg in: Studia Linguistica 1, 1947, pp. 52-55
  • Eugène Wiblé in: Cahiers Ferdinand de Saussure 7, 1948, pp. 45-46
  • Anne-Marguerite Fryba-Reber: Maurice Grammont et l'école française de linguistique , in: Cahiers Ferdinand de Saussure 52, 1999, pp. 139–153

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personal data
SURNAME Grammont, Maurice
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grammont, Mauricius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French romanist and phonetician
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Damprichard
DATE OF DEATH October 17, 1946
Place of death Montpellier