Introduction À L'étude Comparative Des Langues Indo-Européennes

by Antoine Meillet

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474 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 1964

About the author

Antoine Meillet, an Indo-Europeanist of France, authored more than two dozen still widely consulted books and reference works, including The Comparative Method in Historical Linguistics (1925).

The most important Paul Jules Antoine Meillet began his studies at the Sorbonne, where Michel Bréal, Ferdinand de Saussure, and the members of the Année Sociologique influenced him.

In 1890, he, part of a research trip, in the Caucasus studied Armenian. After his return, Ferdinand de Saussure went back to Geneva and continued the series of lectures on grammar that the Swiss formerly gave. Meillet completed his doctorate, Research on the Use of the Genitive-Accusative in Old Slavonic , in 1897.

In 1902, he took a chair in Armenian at the École des langues orientales. In 1905, people elected him to the Collège de France, where he taught on structure. He closely noted Paul Pelliot and Robert Gauthiot.

Today, people remember Meillet as the mentor of an entire generation of central philologists, such as Émile Benveniste, Georges Dumézil, and André Martinet, in the 20th century.