Albert Dauzat (; 4 July 1877 – 31 October 1955) was a French linguist specializing in

toponymy Toponymy, toponymics, or toponomastics is the study of ''toponyms'' (proper names of places, also known as place names and geographic names), including their origins, meanings, usage and types. Toponym is the general term for a proper name of ...

and

onomastics Onomastics (or, in older texts, onomatology) is the study of the etymology, history, and use of proper names. An ''orthonym'' is the proper name of the object in question, the object of onomastic study. Onomastics can be helpful in data mining, w ...

. Dauzat, a student of

Jules Gilliéron Jules Gilliéron (21 December 1854 – 26 April 1926) was a Swiss-French linguist and dialectologist. From 1883 until his death, he taught dialectology at the École pratique des hautes études in Paris. In 1887, he co-founded the ''Revue des pato ...

, was a director of studies at the École des hautes études.

Works

* ''L'argot des poilus; dictionnaire humoristique et philologique du langage des soldats de la grande guerre de 1914'', 1918 * ''La géographie linguistique'', 1922 * ''Les noms de lieux, origine et évolution; villes et villages--pays--cours d'eau--montagnes--lieux-dits'', 1926 * ''La Langue Française: sa vie, son évolution'', 1926 * ''Les argots : caractères, évolution, influence'', 1928 * ''Le génie de la langue française'', 1942 * ''Grammaire raisonnée de la langue française'', 1947 * ''Dictionnaire étymologique des noms de famille et prénoms de France'', 1951

References

Bibliography

* , 2000, 255, , . — . * Anne-Marguerite Fryba-Reber, ''Dauzat et

Jaberg Jaberg is a municipality in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. History Jaberg is first mentioned in 1259 as ''Jagberc''. The oldest trace of a settlement in the area is a Hallstatt burial mound. Du ...

: deux héritiers de Gilliéron'', in Actes du Colloque Dauzat et le patrimoine linguistique auvergnat, Montpellier, 2000, 211-230 * Joan Pèire Chambon (=

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), Albert Dauzat . Stammerjohann (1996) ''Lexicon grammaticorum. Who’s Who in the History of World Linguistics,'' Tübingen, {{DEFAULTSORT:Dauzat, Albert People from Guéret 1877 births 1955 deaths Linguists from France Toponymists Onomastics