Joseph Vendryes

Joseph Vendryes or Vendryès (French: [vɑ̃dʁiɛs]; 13 January 1875 – 30 January 1960) was a French Celtic linguist.^[1]

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

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.

Published works

• 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]

See also

• Leo Weisgerber
• Jan de Vries