Fernand Carton

Fernand Carton (4 September 1921 – 16 November 2019) was a French linguist who specialized in Picardic dialects.^[1]

Fernand Carton
Born	(1921-09-04)4 September 1921 Roubaix, France
Died	16 November 2019(2019-11-16) (aged 98) Malzéville, France
Academic work
Discipline	Linguist
Sub-discipline	Picard language
Institutions	Nancy 2 University University of Lorraine

Biography

After passing the Agrégation de Lettres classiques exams in 1958,^[2] Carton published numerous articles in the field of phonetics. He became a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada^[3] and President of the Language Sciences section of the national committee of the French National Centre for Scientific Research. He also served as President of Nancy 2 University and University of Lorraine. He published a linguistic atlas of the Picard language,^[4] and adapted the Feller-Carton dialect transcription system.^[5]