Claude Hagège (; born 1 January 1936) is 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 ...

Biography

He was elected to the

Collège de France The (), formerly known as the or as the ''Collège impérial'' founded in 1530 by François I, is a higher education and research establishment () in France. It is located in Paris near La Sorbonne. The has been considered to be France's most ...

in 1988 and received several awards for his work, including the Prix de l'

Académie Française An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of tertiary education. The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, founded approximately 386 BC at Akademia, a sanctuary of Athena, the go ...

and the CNRS Gold medal. Famous for being a

polyglot Multilingualism is the use of more than one language, either by an individual speaker or by a group of speakers. When the languages are just two, it is usually called bilingualism. It is believed that multilingual speakers outnumber monolin ...

, he speaks (or is knowledgeable about) fifty languages, including Italian, English, Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Russian, Greek, Guarani, Hungarian, Navajo, Nocte, Punjabi, Persian, Malay, Hindi, Malagasy, Fula, Quechua, Tamil, Tetela, Turkish and Japanese.

Publications

* ''La Langue mbum de nganha cameroun - phonologie - grammaire'', Paris, Klincksieck, 1970 * ''Le Problème linguistique des prépositions et la solution chinoise'', Paris, Société de linguistique de Paris, 1975 * ''La Phonologie panchronique'', Paris, PUF, 1978 * ''Le Comox lhaamen de Colombie britannique : présentation d'une langue amérindienne''.

Amerindia In the Americas, Indigenous peoples comprise the two continents' pre-Columbian inhabitants, as well as the ethnic groups that identify with them in the 15th century, as well as the ethnic groups that identify with the pre-Columbian population of ...

, numéro spécial, Paris, Association d'Ethnolinguistique Amérindienne, 1981 * ''La Structure des langues'', Paris, PUF, 1982 * ''L'Homme de paroles'', Paris, Fayard, 1985 * ''L'Homme de paroles : contribution linguistique aux sciences humaines'', Paris, Fayard, 1985 * ''Le Français et les siècles'', Éditions Odile Jacob, 1987 * ''Le Souffle de la langue : voies et destins des parlers d'Europe'', Amsterdam, John Benjamins, 1992 * ''The Language Builder: an Essay on the Human Signature in Linguistic Morphogenesis'', 1992 * ''L'Enfant aux deux langues'', Éditions Odile Jacob, 1996 * ''Le français, histoire d'un combat'', Paris, Le Livre de Poche, 1996 * ''Halte à la mort des langues'', Paris, Odile Jacob, 2000 * ''Combat pour le français : au nom de la diversité des langues et des cultures'', Paris, Odile Jacob, 2006 * ''Dictionnaire amoureux des langues'', Paris, Plon/Odile Jacob, 2009 * ''Contre la pensée unique'', Paris, Odile Jacob, 2012 * ''Les religions, la parole, la violence'', Paris, Odile Jacob, 2017. * ''Le linguiste et les langues'', Paris, CNRS, 2019.

Awards and honours

Awards

* 1981 : Prix Volney * 1986 : Grand Prix de l'Essai de la

Société des Gens de Lettres The Société des gens de lettres de France (SGDLF; ; ) is a writers' association founded in 1838 by the notable French authors George Sand, Honoré de Balzac, Victor Hugo, and Alexandre Dumas. It is a private association recognised in France as ...

for ''L'Homme de paroles'' * 1986 : Prix de l'

for ''L'Homme de paroles'' * 1995 : CNRS Gold medal

National honours

References

External links

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