Collège de France, Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales,
Main interests
Comparative Linguistics, Armenian linguistics, Philology
Notable ideas
Epithets in Homer, Meillet's law
Paul Jules Antoine Meillet (French:[ɑ̃twanmɛjɛ]; 11 November 1866 Moulins, France – 21 September 1936 Châteaumeillant, France) was one of the most important French linguists of the early 20th century. He began his studies at the Sorbonne University, where he was influenced by Michel Bréal, Ferdinand de Saussure and the members of the L'Année sociologique. In 1890, he was part of a research trip to the Caucasus, where he studied the Armenian language. After his return, de Saussure had gone back to Geneva so he continued the series of lectures on comparative linguistics that the Swiss linguist had given.
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 Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales and took under his wing Hrachia Adjarian, who would become the founder of modern Armenian dialectology. In 1905, he was elected to the Collège de France, where he taught on the history and structure of Indo-European languages. One of his most-quoted statements is that "anyone wishing to hear how Indo-Europeans spoke should come and listen to a Lithuanian peasant". He worked closely with linguists Paul Pelliot and Robert Gauthiot.
Today Meillet is remembered as the mentor of an entire generation of linguists and philologists, who would become central to French linguistics in the twentieth century, such as Émile Benveniste, Georges Dumézil, and André Martinet.
In 1921, with the help of linguists Paul Boyer and André Mazon [fr], he founded the Revue des études slaves
Paul Jules AntoineMeillet (French: [ɑ̃twan mɛjɛ]; 11 November 1866 Moulins, France – 21 September 1936 Châteaumeillant, France) was one of the most important...
Classical Armenian, the commonly used transliteration is that of Hübschmann-Meillet (1913). It uses a combining dot above diacritic (U+0307) to express the...
addressed, and all the various dialects of Vulgar Latin. The linguist AntoineMeillet wrote: "Without the exterior appearance of the language being much...
Entstehung der Koine (1901), while Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff and AntoineMeillet, based on the intense Ionic elements of the Koine – σσ instead of ττ...
de Transcription rationnelle générale des Noms géographiques (1898) AntoineMeillet Recherches sur le génitif-accusatif en vieux slave (1898) Otto Jespersen...
30 January 1960) was a French Celtic linguist. After studying with AntoineMeillet, he was chairman of Celtic languages and literature at the École Pratique...
from Bulgaria/Macedonia Aleksey Shakhmatov (1864–1920) from Russia AntoineMeillet (1866–1936) from France] Holger Pedersen (1867–1953) from Denmark Mikhail...
Indo-Europeans spoke should come and listen to a Lithuanian peasant. — AntoineMeillet Among Indo-European languages, Lithuanian is conservative in its grammar...
from AntoineMeillet, 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...
studied comparative linguistics in Copenhagen, Prague and Paris (with AntoineMeillet and Joseph Vendryes, among others). In 1931, he founded the Cercle...
for a PhD at the Sorbonne in Paris and was a student of the linguist AntoineMeillet. In his dissertations, which were published in French in 1928, Parry...
members of the paradigm is called 'value' (French: valeur). In France, AntoineMeillet and Émile Benveniste continued Saussure's project, and members of the...
agreements between Armenian and any other Indo-European language. AntoineMeillet (1925, 1927) further investigated morphological and phonological agreement...
exceptional in not being classifiable as having rising or falling rhythm.) AntoineMeillet and later scholars, by comparison to Vedic meter, have seen in these...
Concepción, vol. 30, pp. 171–182. Haudricourt, André (1952): "Yamana", en AntoineMeillet y Marcel Cohen (eds.): Les langues du monde. París: Centre National...
Acharian studied at local Armenian schools and at the Sorbonne, under AntoineMeillet, and the University of Strasbourg, under Heinrich Hübschmann. He then...
sense was coined by the French linguist AntoineMeillet in his L'évolution des formes grammaticales (1912). Meillet's definition was "the attribution of grammatical...
for example to Celtic and Germanic. The founder of this theory is AntoineMeillet (1866–1936). This unitary theory has been criticized by, among others...
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