Pierre Fouché

Pierre Fouché (born February 8, 1891 in Ille-sur-Têt , Languedoc-Roussillon , † August 11, 1967 in Paris ) was a French Romanist , Catalanist and phonetician.

Life

Fouché completed his habilitation with Joseph Anglade with the two works Phonétique historique du Roussillonnais (Toulouse 1924, Geneva 1980) and Morphologie historique du Roussillonnais (Toulouse 1924, Geneva 1980) and was then Chargé de conférences for Experimental Phonetics and French Philology at the University of Grenoble , from 1926 to 1937 professor of French language history at the University of Strasbourg and from 1937 to 1962 (as successor to Hubert Pernot) professor of phonetics at the Sorbonne. From Albert Dauzat he took over the publication of the magazine Le Français Moderne . In 1946 he became a member of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans . A street and a college were named after him in his hometown.

Works

• Etudes de phonétique generale. Syllabe, diphtongaison, consonnes additionnelles , Paris 1927 (Publications de la Faculté des lettres de l'Université de Strasbourg 39)
• Le verbe français. Etude morphologique , Paris 1931 (Publications de la Faculté des lettres de l'Université de Strasbourg 56), 2nd edition 1967, 1981
• A propos de l'origine du basque , Madrid 1943
• Phonétique historique du français , 3 vols., Paris 1952-1958-1961, 1966-1969
• Traité de prononciation française , Paris 1956, most recently 2000, ISBN 2-252-02610-3

literature

• Mélanges de linguistique et de philologie romanes dédiés à la mémoire de Pierre Fouché (1891-1967), ed. by Georges Matoré , Paris 1970
• Gérald Antoine in: Le Français Moderne 26, 1967
• Charles Rostaing in: Onoma 12, 1966-1967, pp. 262-264
• Hommage à Pierre Fouché, in: Cahier des amis du Vieil Ille et des villages voisins 21, 1968

Web links

• Literature by and about Pierre Fouché in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)