Jeanne Martinet (March 24, 1920 – November 6, 2018) was a French

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and a proprietor of a semiotics school. Her husband was the linguist

André Martinet André Martinet (; 12 April 1908 – 16 July 1999) was a French linguist, influential due to his work on structural linguistics. In linguistic theory, Martinet is known especially for his studies on linguistic economy and double articulation. ...

(1908–1999). In 1973, in Paris, Martinet published the book ''Clefs pour la sémiologie'', which has been translated into numerous languages. In 1993, she co-authored, with her husband, the volume ''Mémoires d'un linguiste''. Martinet was born in March 1920. Although her husband was Research Director of the

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(IALA) from 1946 to 1948, she became involved with

Interlingua Interlingua (, ) is an international auxiliary language (IAL) developed between 1937 and 1951 by the American International Auxiliary Language Association (IALA). It is a constructed language of the "naturalistic" variety, whose vocabulary, ...

only in 1997, when a group of interviewers including Alix Potet spoke with the couple in their home. Jeanne Martinet participated in the Jubilee Interlingua Conference in Poland in 2001, the 8th Nordic Meeting in Sweden in 2002, the 16th International Interlingua Conference in Bulgaria in 2003, the 9th Nordic Meeting in Sweden in 2004, and the 17th International Interlingua Conference in Sweden in 2005. In 2002, she was elected President of the Union Interlinguiste de France. The same year, she traveled to Guadeloupe to deliver the presentation "Créole et interlingua" at the conference of the International Society of Functional Linguistics. In 2005, she presented "L'interlingua et la linguistique fonctionnelle" to the society in

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, Finland. Martinet died in November 2018 at the age of 98.BnF: Jeanne Martinet (1920-2018)
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References

*"Interlingua pro linguistas". ''Panorama in Interlingua'', 2005, Issue 5.

External links

* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20061124155454/http://www.interlingua.com.fr/spip/ Union Interlinguiste de France 1920 births 2018 deaths Interlingua speakers Semioticians {{semiotician-stub