Albert Cuny


Albert Cuny was a French linguist known for his attempts to establish phonological correspondences between the Indo-European and Semitic languages and for his contributions to the laryngeal theory.
He was a student of the French Indo-Europeanist Antoine Meillet. From 1910 until his formal retirement from teaching in 1937 he was a professor of Latin and comparative grammar at the University of Bordeaux. He continued teaching Sanskrit at the University however for the rest of his life. He was a correspondent of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres.
Cuny's place in the development of the laryngeal theory is described as follows by Émile Benveniste :

Selected works by Albert Cuny