MARTINET, André. Saint-Alban-des-Villards (Savoie) 12.4.1908 — Châtenay-Malabry (Paris) 16.7.1999. French Linguist. After École normale supérieure began his studies in Paris with English (aggregation 1930) and Germanic, also student of Millet and Vendryes. Ph.D. 1937 Paris. In 1938-46 directeur d’études at É.P.H.É. In 1947-55 taught at Columbia University in New York. Then returned to É.P.H.É. and soon Professor of General Linguistics at Sorbonne/Paris V. Retired in 1977, but continued teaching and research. Married Karen Mikkelsen Sørensen, then Semiotician Jeanne Allard (1920–2018). As a linguist Martinet followed the Prague School and strongly polemized with N. Chomsky.
Publications: Diss. I. La gémination consonantique d’origine expressive dans les langues germaniques. Copenhagen 1937; diss. II. La phonologie du mot en danois. P. 1937.
– “Non-apophonic O-vocalism in Indo-European”, Word 9, 1953, 253-267; “Some cases of -K-/-W- alternation in Indo-European”, Word 12, 1956, 1-6.
– Des steppes aux océans: L’indo-européen et les ‘Indo-Européens’. 274 p. P. 1986.
– Much on general linguistics, especially Elements de linguistique général. P. 1960.
Sources: J. Martinet in silf-la-linguistique.org with photo; *bibliography in Word 23, 1967, 1-12?; Wikipedia with photo (see also the French version).
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