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Joseph Vendryes | |
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Died | 30 January 1960 Paris, France | (aged 85)
Alma mater | University of Paris |
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Fields | linguistics |
Institutions | École Pratique des Hautes Études |
Joseph Vendryes or Vendryès (French: [vɑ̃dʁiɛs]; 13 January 1875 – 30 January 1960) was a French Celtic linguist.[1] After studying with Antoine Meillet, he was chairman of Celtic languages and literature at the École Pratique des Hautes Études. He founded the journal Études Celtiques. He was a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres and a consultant with the International Auxiliary Language Association, which standardized and presented Interlingua.[2]
He studied the phenomenon of syntactic dislocation.