Maurice Grammont (15 April 1866, in Damprichard 17 October 1946, in Montpellier) was a French linguist.

He studied linguistics in Paris as a student of Michel Bréal, Arsène Darmesteter, Jules Gilliéron, Gaston Paris and Ferdinand de Saussure. Also, he studied Indo-European languages in Germany; at Freiburg as a pupil of Rudolf Thurneysen and at the University of Berlin under Johannes Schmidt. From 1892 taught classes in linguistics, Gothic and Lithuanian at the Faculty of Letters in Dijon. In 1895 he was appointed chair of grammar and philology at the Faculty of Letters in Montpellier, where he remained up until his retirement in 1939.[1][2]

In 1904/05 he founded the laboratory of experimental phonetics at the University of Montpellier. He also worked as editor of the journal Revue des langues romanes.[1]

Selected works

  • Le patois de la Franche-Montagne et en particulier de Damprichard (Franche-Comté), 1892 The patois of the Franche-Montagne, in particular of Damprichard (Franche-Comté).
  • La dissimilation consonantique dans les langues indo-européennes et dans les langues romanes, 1895 Consonant dissimilation in Indo-European and Romance languages.
  • Petit traité de versification française, 1908 Brief treatise on French versification.
  • Traité pratique de prononciation française, 1914 Practical treatise on French pronunciation.
  • Le vers français. Ses moyens d'expression, son harmonie, 1914 The French verse; its means of expression; its harmony.
  • Traite de phonétique, 1933 Treatise on phonetics.
  • Phonétique du grec ancien, 1948 Phonetics of ancient Greek.
  • Essai de psychologie linguistique, style et poésie, 1950 Essay on linguistic psychology.[3]

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