Joseph Vendryes
Joseph Vendryes or Vendryès was a French Celtic linguist. 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.
He studied the phenomenon of dislocation.Quote
Published works
- Recherches sur l'histoire et les effets de l'intensité initiale en latin
- Traité d'accentuation grecque
- Grammaire du vieil-irlandais
- Le langage
- La position linguistique du celtique
- La Religion des Celtes
- Choix d'études linguistiques et celtiques. Paris: Klincksieck, 1952.
- Lexique étymologique de l'irlandais ancien
