Emile Benveniste was an Ottoman-born, later naturalized French structural linguist and semiotician, among the twentieth century's foremost scholars of the Indo-European languages. He critically reformulated Saussurean linguistic theory, developed a theory of enunciation distinguishing the utterance from the act of uttering it, and produced a landmark comparative study of Indo-European institutions and their shared vocabulary. His early, highly technical work limited his influence to a small circle of specialists before it reshaped general linguistics more broadly.
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His comparative study of Indo-European institutions and vocabulary is a landmark of the field.
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Meillet was Benveniste's teacher at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes and shaped his structural approach to Indo-European linguistics.
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At the start of his career, his highly specialised and technical work limited his influence to a small circle of scholars.
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Emile Benveniste was an Ottoman-born, later naturalized French structural linguist and semiotician, among the twentieth century's foremost scholars of the Indo-European languages.
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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.
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