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    Paul Jules Antoine Meillet (French: [ɑ̃twan mɛjɛ]; 11 November 1866 – 21 September 1936) was one of the most important French linguists of the early 20th...
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  • principle is named after the French linguist Antoine Meillet. In 1903, the French linguist Antoine Meillet published his Introduction à l'étude comparative...
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  • Classical Armenian, the commonly used transliteration is that of Hübschmann-Meillet (1913). It uses a combining dot above diacritic (U+0307) to express the...
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  • Meillet's law is a Common Slavic accent law, named after the French Indo-Europeanist Antoine Meillet, who discovered it. According to the law, Slavic words...
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    addressed, and all the various dialects of Vulgar Latin. The linguist Antoine Meillet wrote: "Without the exterior appearance of the language being much...
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  • 1920 at the initiative of French scholars Frédéric Macler and Antoine Meillet. Meillet himself wrote many of the articles during the formative years of...
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    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...
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  • from Bulgaria/Macedonia Aleksey Shakhmatov (1864–1920) from Russia Antoine Meillet (1866–1936) from France] Holger Pedersen (1867–1953) from Denmark Mikhail...
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  • de Transcription rationnelle générale des Noms géographiques (1898) Antoine Meillet Recherches sur le génitif-accusatif en vieux slave (1898) Otto Jespersen...
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  • Entstehung der Koine (1901), while Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff and Antoine Meillet, based on the intense Ionic elements of the Koine – σσ instead of ττ...
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    Italo-Celtic subgroup was at one point uncontroversial, considered by Antoine Meillet to be even better established than Balto-Slavic. The main lines of...
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    cycle". The observation was however made earlier, most noticeably by Antoine Meillet, who used the term 'spiral'. There are three stages, labelled I, II...
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    Acharian studied at local Armenian schools and at the Sorbonne, under Antoine Meillet, and the University of Strasbourg, under Heinrich Hübschmann. He then...
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    formulae in conventionalised ways, poets can rapidly compose verse. Antoine Meillet expressed the idea in 1923, thus: Homeric epic is entirely composed...
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  • important teacher there was Antoine Meillet, who gave him a rigorous introduction in Iranian and Indo-European linguistics. Meillet was to have a great influence...
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    Indo-Europeans spoke should come and listen to a Lithuanian peasant. — Antoine Meillet Among Indo-European languages, Lithuanian is conservative in its grammar...
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  • and any other Indo-European language. During the mid-to-late 1920s, Antoine Meillet further investigated morphological and phonological agreements and...
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  • studied comparative linguistics in Copenhagen, Prague and Paris (with Antoine Meillet and Joseph Vendryes, among others). In 1931, he founded the Cercle...
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    for a PhD at the Sorbonne in Paris and was a student of the linguist Antoine Meillet. In his dissertations, which were published in French in 1928, Parry...
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  • from Antoine Meillet, to the effect that a language is a dialect with an army. Up to now the source has not been found in the works of Meillet." Laponce...
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    members of the paradigm is called 'value' (French: valeur). In France, Antoine Meillet and Émile Benveniste continued Saussure's project, and members of the...
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    Assyrian, and Hebrew from Auguste Carrière. In 1911, he succeeded Antoine Meillet, as he took a chair in Armenian at the Institut national des langues...
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    differences discovered by French linguists such as Charles Sacleux and Antoine Meillet, have affirmed the distinctiveness of Comorian as a separate language...
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    sino-tibétain (Sino-Tibetan) as the title of his chapter on the group in Antoine Meillet and Marcel Cohen's Les Langues du Monde in 1924. The Tai languages...
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    Concepción, vol. 30, pp. 171–182. Haudricourt, André (1952): "Yamana", en Antoine Meillet y Marcel Cohen (eds.): Les langues du monde. París: Centre National...
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    difficulty of making these determinations. Following an original theory by Antoine Meillet, the Osco-Umbrian languages were traditionally considered a branch...
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    related and that there was no common Proto-Balto-Slavic language. Antoine Meillet (1905, 1908, 1922, 1925, 1934), a French linguist, in reaction to Brugmann's...
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  • exceptional in not being classifiable as having rising or falling rhythm.) Antoine Meillet and later scholars, by comparison to Vedic meter, have seen in these...
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  • sense was coined by the French linguist Antoine Meillet in his L'évolution des formes grammaticales (1912). Meillet's definition was "the attribution of a...
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    for example to Celtic and Germanic. The founder of this theory is Antoine Meillet (1866–1936). This unitary theory has been criticized by, among others...
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