Éva Buchi (Eva Büchi in German) is a

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and

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specializing in the

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Biography

After leaving school in 1983 she began training as a teacher, subsequently studying

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linguistics at the

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, where she obtained her doctorate in 1994. From 1987 to 1993 she worked as a research assistant and editor on the French etymological dictionary project FEW (

Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch The ''Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch'' (german: French Etymological Dictionary) or FEW is the principal etymological dictionary of the Gallo-Romance languages (such as French). It was the brainchild of the Swiss philologist Walther vo ...

) in

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. Her subsequent research continued to focus mainly on the lexicography and history of the Romance languages. From 1993 to 1995, with the support of the

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, Buchi continued to edit the FEW, now attached to the National Institute of the French Language (INaLF) in

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. Since 1995 she has been a researcher at the

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(CNRS) as part of INaLF, later ATILF (Analyse et traitement informatique de la langue française). There she primarily works on the Romance Etymological Dictionary (DÉRom). Since 2005 she has been Research Director at ATILF, and from 2013 to 2017 she was the head of the institute. In addition, from 1999 to 2003 Buchi worked as a lecturer at

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. In 2003 she obtained her

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at the

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, supervised by

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. Following this she lectured at

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. In 2007 the Society of Romance Linguistics (SLiR) awarded her the

Albert Dauzat Albert Dauzat (; 4 July 1877 – 31 October 1955) was a French linguist specializing in toponymy and onomastics. Dauzat, a student of Jules Gilliéron, was a director of studies at the École des hautes études. Works * ''L'argot des poilus; di ...

Prize. In 2019 she was elected as a member of the Academia Europaea.

Works

Éva Buchi has written numerous entries for the French Etymological Dictionary. What follows is a small selection of her other scholarly works. * Buchi, Éva, & Wolfgang Schweickard. 2009. Romanistique et étymologie du fonds lexical héréditaire : du REW au DÉRom (Dictionnaire Étymologique Roman). (Romance philology and etymology of the inherited lexicon: from the REW to the DÉRom (Romance Etymological Dictionary).) In Carmen Alén Garabato, Teddy Arnavielle & Christian Camps (eds.), ''La Romanistique dans tous ses états'', Paris: L’Harmattan: 97‐110. * Buchi, Éva. 2010. Where Caesar's Latin does not belong: a comparative grammar based approach to Romance etymology. In Charles Brewer (ed.), ''Selected Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Historical Lexicography and Lexicology held at St Anne's College, Oxford, 16-18 June 2010'', Oxford: Oxford University Research Archive. * Buchi, Éva. 2016. Etymological dictionaries. In Philip Durkin (ed.), ''The Oxford handbook of lexicography'', Oxford: Oxford University Press: 338-349.

References

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