Emile Benveniste

Chloe Laplantine (Paris Cité University)

Ed. by Siobhán McIlvanney, King's College London
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.5.2.07: French Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Kate Averis (University of Western Australia), Hugo Azerad (University of Cambridge), Patrick ffrench (King's College London), Edward Forman (University of Bristol), Akane Kawakami (Birkbeck, University of London), Siobhán McIlvanney (King's College London), Sinan Richards (King's College London), Tim Unwin (University of Bristol), David Williams (University of Sheffield)

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Born 1902
Died 1976
Activity 1922-1976

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Born in France
Active in France

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Émile Benveniste was born in Aleppo (Syria) in 1902. He was sent to Paris at an early age to pursue rabbinical studies, but it was to comparative grammar that he eventually decided to devote his intellectual energy. Indo-European linguistics, particularly Indo-Iranian, was to be the main subject of his published work and teaching. In addition to articles and specialized works (notably

Origines de la formation des noms en indo-européen

[Origins of Noun Formation in Indo-European], 1936, and

Noms d’agent et noms d’action en indo-européen

[Agent Nouns and Action Nouns], 1948, which are reference works in the discipline), Benveniste published texts aimed at a wider public:

Le Vocabulaire des institutions-indo-européennes

(1969) [

Indo-European Language and Society

(1973)] and the two…

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Citation: Laplantine, Chloe. "Emile Benveniste". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 18 December 2024 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=375, accessed 26 January 2025.]

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