Albert Cuny


Albert Cuny was a French linguist known for his attempts to establish phonological correspondences between the Indo-European and Semitic languages and for his contributions to the laryngeal theory.
He was a student of the French Indo-Europeanist Antoine Meillet. From 1910 until his formal retirement from teaching in 1937 he was a professor of Latin and comparative grammar at the University of Bordeaux. He continued teaching Sanskrit at the University however for the rest of his life. He was a correspondent of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres.
Cuny's place in the development of the laryngeal theory is described as follows by Émile Benveniste :

Selected works by Albert Cuny

  • 1914. "Notes de phonétique historique. Indo-européen et sémitique." Revue de phonétique 2:101–132.
  • 1924. Etudes prégrammaticales sur le domaine des langues indo-européennes et chamito-sémitiques. Paris: Champion.
  • 1924, co-authored with Michel Féghali. Du genre grammatical en sémitique. Paris: Geuthner.
  • 1943. Recherches sur le vocalisme, le consonantisme et la formation des racines en « nostratique », ancêtre de l'indo-européen et du chamito-sémitique. Paris: Adrien Maisonneuve.
  • 1946. Invitation à l'étude comparative des langues indo-européennes et des langues chamito-sémitiques. Bordeaux: Brière.

    Other works cited

  • Benveniste, Émile. 1935. Origines de la formations des noms en indo-européen. Paris: Adrien Maisonneuve.
  • Faral, Edmond. 1947. Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres 91.2, 277-279.
Category:Linguists from France
Category:Long-range comparative linguists
Category:Linguists of Indo-Semitic languages
Category:1947 deaths
Category:1869 births