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Joseph Vendryes

French linguist (1875–1960)

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Joseph Vendryes
Born	(1875-01-13)13 January 1875 Paris, French Third Republic
Died	30 January 1960(1960-01-30) (aged 85) Paris, France
Alma mater	University of Paris
Known for	Work in Celtic linguistics Vendryes's law
Scientific career
Fields	linguistics
Institutions	École Pratique des Hautes Études

Joseph VendryesorVendryès (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.

Le Language [...] est un acte physiologique en ce qu'il met en œuvre plusieurs organes du corps humain. C'est un acte psychologique en ce qu'il suppose l'activité volontaire de l'esprit. C'est un acte social en ce qu'il répond à un besoin de communication entre les hommes. Enfin, c'est un fait historique, attesté sous des formes très variées...

[Language is a physiological act since it uses many organs of the human body. It is a psychological act since it supposes the willing activity of the spirit. It is a social act since it fulfils a need for communication between men. Lastly it is a historical fact, attested under various forms...] — Le Langage, introduction linguistique à l'histoire (1921)^[relevant?]

• Recherches sur l'histoire et les effets de l'intensité initiale en latin ('Research on the History and the Effects of Initial Intensity in Latin', 1902)
• Traité d'accentuation grecque ('A Treatise on Greek Accentuation', 1904)
• Grammaire du vieil-irlandais ('A Grammar of Old Irish', 1908)
• Le langage ('Language', 1921)
• La position linguistique du celtique ('The Linguistic Position of Celtic', 1930)
• La Religion des Celtes ('The Religion of the Celts', 1948)
• Choix d'études linguistiques et celtiques ('Selections of Linguistic and Celtic Studies', 1952)
• Lexique étymologique de l'irlandais ancien ('An Etymological Lexicon of Old Irish', 1959)^[3]

• Leo Weisgerber
• Jan de Vries

• Observations on the English Translation of Vendryes' Le Langage