Adrien Louis Marie Alibert, known as Louis Alibert (''Loís Alibèrt'' in

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; 1884–1959) was a French linguist, born on October 12, 1884 in Bram in the Aude and died on April 16, 1959 in Montpellier. He specialized in Occitan and Languedocien. He is also the initiator of the classical standard of Occitan, adopted by the Institute of Occitan Studies (IEO) in 1945.

Biography

Alibert was born in

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in the Aude, in Lauragais, on 12 October 1884, to a family of peasants who spoke

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/ref> He completed his studies in pharmacy, philology and history. He graduated from méridional and history studies. Postponed in 1905 and 1906, Alibert was incorporated into the 81st Infantry Regiment in 1907. He made his classes in availability on July 11, 1908, then was placed in reserve on October 1, 1908, until his recall to the flag at the beginning. of August 1914. He carried out his first period of exercises from August 17, 1910, to September 13, 1913, in the 113th Infantry Regiment and the second in the 148th Infantry Regiment. Alibert took part in the

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, during which he was appointed corporal on August 10, 1914, an auxiliary pharmacist on March 1, 1916, 2nd class assistant pharmacist temporarily on October 19, 1918, in the Territorial Army. He was placed at the disposal of the health service of the 16th Army Corps on February 14, 1919, which assigned him to the complementary hospital n ° 12 in

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. He was demobilized on June 17, 1919, but remained in the territorial army reserve until 1925. He was appointed 1st class assistant pharmacist in 1924, and released from his military service obligations in 1932. He dedicated his career to the restoration and normalization of the modern

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. He was secretary general of the Societat d'Estudis Occitans, created in

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in 1930, and followed the methods of the

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. In 1935, the Office of Southern Relations of the Generalitat of Catalonia published in Barcelona his work , dedicated exclusively to the speakers of

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, which served as the base for the purification of the rest of the Occitan dialects. He also worked toward the creation of a common literary language, a goal partially reached after the

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by the new

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, successor to the Societat. In his later years he recompiled materials for an Occitan dictionary, destined to end with the fragmentation of the literary language and the Frankification of the vocabulary, orthography, and syntax. He died before completing this work, which was published posthumously (''Dictionnaire occitan-français'', 1965).

Works

* , 1935-1937 * ''Les troubadours de l'Aude'', 1941 * ''Origine et destin de la langue d'Oc'', 1942 * ''Tèrra d'Òc'', 1908-1930 * ''Sur quelques toponymes catalano-occitans dans l'Aude'', 1956 * ''Toponymes de l'Aude'', 1957 * ''Sept élégies de Tibulle traduites en languedocien'', 1928 * ''Dictionnaire occitan-français selon les parlers languedociens'', 1966 (posthumous)

References

External links

Louis Alibert: Lexique français-occitan des gallicismes corrigés

1884 births 1959 deaths Linguists from France Occitan linguists Occitan-language writers People from Aude 20th-century linguists {{France-linguist-stub