French comparative linguist, a student of Ferdinand de Saussure, who became the most influential figure in early twentieth-century Indo-European studies. He formalized the concept of grammaticalization, the process by which autonomous words become grammatical markers, and through his chair at the College de France from 1905 trained a generation of linguists including Emile Benveniste, Georges Dumezil and Andre Martinet.
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RoleLinguist, Comparative Indo-Europeanist 1 Role
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The dominant figure in early twentieth-century Indo-European comparative studies.
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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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Meillet studied under Saussure and carried his structural approach into Indo-European comparative linguistics.
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Breal was Meillet teacher in Paris and a formative influence on his approach to historical and comparative linguistics.
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Paul Jules Antoine Meillet (French: [ɑ̃twan mɛjɛ]; 11 November 1866 - 21 September 1936) was one of the most important French linguists of the early 20th century.
- Associated With: Indo-European
- Influenced By: Ferdinand de Saussure
Influenced: Emile Benveniste, Article text
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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