Joseph Vendryes
Joseph Vendryes | |
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| Born | 13 January 1875 |
| Died | 30 January 1960 (aged 85) Paris, France |
| Alma mater | University of Paris |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Linguistics |
| Institutions | École Pratique des Hautes Études |
Joseph Vendryes or Vendryès (French: [vɑ̃dʁiɛs]; 13 January 1875 – 30 January 1960) 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 syntactic dislocation.