Robert Chaudenson (12 April 1937 – 7 April 2020) was a French linguist.

Biography

He was a specialist in

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and an

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professor of

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at the

University of Provence The University of Provence Aix-Marseille I (french: Université de Provence) was a public research university mostly located in Aix-en-Provence and Marseille. It was one of the three Universities of Aix-Marseille and was part of the Academy of ...

. He was a widely known author on the subject of creolistics and president of the International Committee of Creole Studies. He was born in Lyon, and died aged 82, just 5 days before his 83rd birthday in Metropolitan France due to complications of

COVID-19 Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by a virus, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The first known case was COVID-19 pandemic in Hubei, identified in Wuhan, China, in December ...

Publications

*1974. ''Le lexique du parler créole de la Réunion'', 2 vol., Paris: Champion, 1249 p. *1978
"Créole et langage enfantin: phylogenèse et ontogenèse"
''Langue française'', vol. 37, pp. 76–90. *1979. "A propos de la genèse du créole mauricien: le peuplement de l'Ile de France de 1721 à 1735", ''Etudes Créoles'', 1979, n° 1, pp. 43–57. *1990
"Recherche, formation et créolistique"
''Revue Québecoise de linguistique théorique et appliquée'', vol. 9, n°3, novembre 1990, pp. 287–303. *1992. "Les langues créoles", ''La Recherche'', n° 248, novembre 1992, pp. 1248–1256. *1994. "Français d'Amérique du Nord et créoles français : le français parlé par les immigrants du XVIIème siècle", in R. Mougeon et E. Beniak (ed.), ''Les origines du français québecois'', Presses de l'Université Laval, pp. 169–180. *1995. "Les français d'Amérique ou le français d'Amérique : genèse et comparaison" in H. Wittmann et R. Fournier" (ed.), ''Le français des Amériques'', Presses universitaires de Trois-Rivières, pp. 3–19. *1998a. (with L.J. Calvet), ''Saint-Barthélemy : une énigme linguistique'', Paris: Didier Erudition, 206 pages. *1998b. "Variation, koïnèisation, créolisation : français d’Amérique et créoles", in P. Brasseur (éd.), ''Français d’Amérique. Variation, créolisation, normalisation'', Avignon: Presses de l'Université d'Avignon, pp. 163–179. *2000
''Grille d’analyse des situations linguistiques''
Paris: Didier Erudition, 58 pages. *2001. (with

Salikoko Mufwene Salikoko Mufwene is a linguist born in Mbaya-Lareme in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He is the Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor of linguistics at the University of Chicago. Mufwene was elected to the American Philosophica ...

)
''Creolization of language and culture''
London: Routledge, 340 pages. *2003. ''La créolisation : théorie, applications, implications'', Paris: L'Harmattan, 480 pages. *2010
''la genèse des créoles de l'Océan indien''
Paris: L'Harmattan.

References

External links

Chaudenson's web page
Linguists from France University of Provence faculty Linguists of pidgins and creoles Writers from Lyon 1937 births 2020 deaths Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in France 20th-century linguists 21st-century linguists {{France-linguist-stub