Hubert Octave Pernot (7 August 1870, in Froideconche – 27 June 1946, Paris) was a French

linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), Morphology (linguistics), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds ...

, specializing in

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studies. He studied at the

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in Paris as a pupil of Émile Legrand and Jean Psichari, and from 1895 to 1912 worked as a ''répétiteur'' of Modern Greek at the school. In 1912 he became a lecturer at the

University of Paris The University of Paris (), known Metonymy, metonymically as the Sorbonne (), was the leading university in Paris, France, from 1150 to 1970, except for 1793–1806 during the French Revolution. Emerging around 1150 as a corporation associated wit ...

, where from 1930 he served as a professor of post-classical and Modern Greek and of neo-Hellenic literature.Grammaire du grec moderne
CTLF - Notices In 1898–99 he made two trips to the island of

Chios Chios (; , traditionally known as Scio in English) is the fifth largest Greece, Greek list of islands of Greece, island, situated in the northern Aegean Sea, and the List of islands in the Mediterranean#By area, tenth largest island in the Medi ...

, from where he recorded music of traditional folk songs and dances, some of which were put to musical score by composer Paul Le Flem. In 1928–30 he made phonograph recordings of traditional folk songs in Romania, Czechoslovakia and Greece.Hubert Octave Célestin Pernot - Recording Pioneers
/ref> He was founder (1919) and director of the Institut néo-hellénique at the Sorbonne, and director of the Institut de Phonétique et des Archives de la parole (Institute of Phonetics and Speech Archives). He made contributions to Émile Legrand's ''Bibliographie hellénique'',HathiTrust Digital Library
(published works) and with Jean-Pierre Rousselot, he was co-editor of the journa
''Revue de phonétique''

Selected works

* ''Grammaire du grecque moderne'', 1897 – Modern Greek grammar. * ''Chrestomathie grecque moderne publiée'' (with Émile Legrand, 1899) – Modern Greek

chrestomathy A chrestomathy ( ; from the Ancient Greek 'desire of learning', from 'useful' + 'learn') is a collection of selected literary passages (usually from a single author); a selection of literary passages from a foreign language assembled for stu ...

. * ''Mélodies populaires greques de l'Ile de Chio recueillies au phonographe'', 1903 – Popular Greek melodies of the island of Chios collected via the phonograph. * ''Études de linguistique néo-hellénique'', 1907 – Studies of neo-Hellenic linguistics. * ''Grammaire et vocabulaire du grec vulgaire'' (with Girolamo Germano, 1907) – Grammar and vocabulary of common Greek. * ''Anthologie populaire de la Grèce moderne'', 1910 – Popular anthology of modern Greek * ''Bibliographie ionienne; description raisonée des ouvrages pub. par les Grecs des Sept-Îles ou concernant ces îles du quinzième siècle à l'année 1900'' (by Émile Legrand, posthumously edited and published by Pernot; 2 volumes, 1910) – Ionian bibliography, etc. * ''Études de littérature grecque moderne'', 1916 – Studies of modern Greek literature. * ''Recueil de textes en grec usuel avec traduction franc̜aise, notes et remarques étymologiques'', 1918 – Collection of texts in Greek, with French translation; etymological notes and remarks. * ''La Grèce actuelle dans ses poètes'', 1921 – Present-day Greece and its poets. * ''Chansons populaires grecques des XVe et XVIe siècles'', 1931 – Greek folk songs from the 15th and 16th centuries. * ''Lexique grec moderne français'', 1933 – French-Modern Greek lexicon * ''Introduction à l'étude du dialecte tsakonien'', 1934 – Introduction to the study of the Tsakonian dialect. * ''Recherches sur le texte original des Évangiles'', 1938 – Research on the original text of the Gospels.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Pernot, Hubert 1870 births 1946 deaths People from Haute-Saône Academic staff of the University of Paris Linguists from France Phoneticians