Romain Garnier (born 1976) is a French linguist who specializes in

Latin Latin ( or ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic languages, Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally spoken by the Latins (Italic tribe), Latins in Latium (now known as Lazio), the lower Tiber area aroun ...

Greek Greek may refer to: Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe: *Greeks, an ethnic group *Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family **Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor of all kno ...

Lydian language Lydian is an extinct Indo-European language, Indo-European Anatolian languages, Anatolian language spoken in the region of Lydia, in western Anatolia (now in Turkey). The language is attested in graffiti and in coin legends from the late 8th centu ...

and

Indo-European linguistics Indo-European studies () is a field of linguistics and an interdisciplinary field of study dealing with Indo-European languages, both current and extinct. The goal of those engaged in these studies is to amass information about the hypothetical p ...

. He has been an Assistant Professor (

Maître de Conférences The following summarizes basic academic ranks in the France, French higher education system. Most academic institutions are state-run and most academics with permanent positions are French Civil Service, civil servants, and thus are Academic tenur ...

) since 2005 at the

University of Limoges The University of Limoges (''Université de Limoges'') is a French public university, based in Limoges. Its chancellor is the rector of the Academy of Limoges (an administrative district in France for education and research). It counts more than ...

. He was the recipient of the Prix Émile Benveniste awarded in 2010 by the

Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres The () is a French learned society devoted to history, founded in February 1663 as one of the five academies of the . The academy's scope was the study of ancient inscriptions (epigraphy) and historical literature (see Belles-lettres). History ...

, and became a member of the

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in 2013.

Life and career

He has authored more than 50 articles and two books on Indo-European linguistics. His main contributions concern the

etymology Etymology ( ) is the study of the origin and evolution of words—including their constituent units of sound and meaning—across time. In the 21st century a subfield within linguistics, etymology has become a more rigorously scientific study. ...

phonology Phonology (formerly also phonemics or phonematics: "phonemics ''n.'' 'obsolescent''1. Any procedure for identifying the phonemes of a language from a corpus of data. 2. (formerly also phonematics) A former synonym for phonology, often pre ...

and

morphology Morphology, from the Greek and meaning "study of shape", may refer to: Disciplines *Morphology (archaeology), study of the shapes or forms of artifacts *Morphology (astronomy), study of the shape of astronomical objects such as nebulae, galaxies, ...

Proto-Indo-European Proto-Indo-European (PIE) is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Indo-European language family. No direct record of Proto-Indo-European exists; its proposed features have been derived by linguistic reconstruction from documented Indo-Euro ...

and

Indo-European languages The Indo-European languages are a language family native to the northern Indian subcontinent, most of Europe, and the Iranian plateau with additional native branches found in regions such as Sri Lanka, the Maldives, parts of Central Asia (e. ...

, especially

and

. His book on the Latin verbal system was favorably received, as shown by positive reviews by the American linguist Andrew Miles Byrd (

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) in ''Kratylos''^, and by the French linguist Jean-Paul Brachet (

Paris-Sorbonne University Paris-Sorbonne University (also known as Paris IV; ) was a public university, public research university in Paris, France, active from 1971 to 2017. It was the main inheritor of the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Paris. In 2018, it m ...

) in the ''

Bulletin de la Société de Linguistique de Paris The (abbr. ''BSL'' or ''BSLP'') is an academic journal published by the Société de Linguistique de Paris since 1869. The journal Published annually, the journal contains two separate volumes: one of articles, and one dedicated to the review of ...

''. He was invited in 2015 by the French popular science journal ''

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'' to represent the point of view of linguists on the Indo-European theory in a debate with the French archeologist Jean-Paul Demoule, following the publication of a book in which the latter expresses skepticism about the Indo-European hypothesis. He also published two novels in French, in 2010 and 2017. A Czech translation of his first novel, ''L'Héritage de Glace'', was published in 2012. Along with linguist

Xavier Delamarre Xavier Delamarre (; born 5 June 1954) is a French linguist, lexicographer, and former diplomat. He is regarded as one of the world's foremost authorities on the Gaulish language. With linguist Romain Garnier, Delamarre is the co-publishing edi ...

, he is the founding editor of the French academic journal '' Wékwos'' dedicated to Indo-European studies (founded in 2014).

Books

Academic: *2004. ''Thèmes grecs'', Ophrys, 224 pages (book written with Lucien Pernée) *2008. ''Textes épiques sanskrits'', Ophrys, 225 pages *2010. ''Sur le vocalisme radical du verbe Latin'', Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft, Innsbruck, 134, 519 pages *2017. ''La Dérivation inverse en latin'', Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft, Innsbruck, 157, 524 pages *2017. ''Scripta Selecta'', Les Cent Chemins, Paris, 547 pages Novels: *2010 ''L'Héritage de Glace'', Paris, Plon. . *2012 ''Mrazivé dědictví'', Prague, PLUS (Czech translation of ''L'Héritage de Glace'') *2017 ''L'encre et la chair'', Paris, Les Cent Chemins (Follow-up to ''L'Héritage de Glace'') Essays: *2012 ''De Gaulle campagne algérienne'', Éditions Elytel, Paris, co-authored with Pierre Jaylet *2014 ''Oradour-sur-Glane : autopsie d’un massacre'', Éditions Elytel, Paris

Notes

:1.For instance, Andrew Byrd states in his review that "G rnierhas done an admirably thorough job in his analysis of the Latin verbal system and has successfully convinced me that "(i)l y a en latin tout un vaste héritage fort archaïque que ne reflète pas du tout la doctrine reçue, telle qu'elle fut professée par les fondateurs de la discipline indo-européenne, et où l'on tient le latin pour une langue innovante" [… that Latin displays a vast amount of archaic inherited data, which is very different from what is usually said, following the teachings of the founders of Indo-European studies who viewed Latin as an innovative language]."

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Garnier, Romain Linguists from France Place of birth missing (living people) Academic staff of the University of Limoges Living people 1976 births Linguists of Indo-European languages 21st-century French linguists 21st-century linguists 21st-century French novelists 21st-century French male writers French male novelists