Jules Gilliéron (21 December 1854 – 26 April 1926) was a Swiss-French

linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), Morphology (linguistics), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds ...

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dialectologist Dialectology (from Greek , ''dialektos'', "talk, dialect"; and , '' -logia'') is the scientific study of dialects: subsets of languages. Though in the 19th century a branch of historical linguistics, dialectology is often now considered a sub-fiel ...

. From 1883 until his death, he taught dialectology at the École pratique des hautes études in Paris. In 1887, he co-founded the ''Revue des patois gallo-romans'' (''Journal of Gallo-Romance dialects''), which was published until 1893. His most notable work was the monumental '' Atlas Linguistique de la France'' (''Linguistic Atlas of France''), published between 1902 and 1910.

Selected works

* ''La Faillite de l'étymologie phonétique: résumé de conférences faites à l'École pratique des hautes études'' (1919), Neuveville: Beerstecher. * '' Atlas Linguistique de la France'' (1902–1910) (with Edmond Edmont), Paris: E. Champion. * ''Pathologie et thérapeutique verbales'' (1921), Paris: E. Champion. * ''Les étymologies des étymologistes et celles du peuple'' (1922), Paris: E. Champion. * ''Ménagiana du XX^e siècle'' (1922), Paris: E. Champion. * ''Thaumaturgie linguistique'' (1923), Paris: E. Champion.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gillieron, Jules Linguists from France Swiss-French people 1854 births 1926 deaths École Nationale des Chartes alumni Linguists from Switzerland