Romain Garnier


Romain Garnier is a French linguist who specializes in Latin, Greek, Lydian language and Indo-European linguistics. He has been an Assistant Professor since 2005 at the University of Limoges. He was the recipient of the Prix Émile Benveniste awarded in 2010 by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, and became a member of the Institut Universitaire de France in 2013.

Life and career

He has authored more than 50 articles and two books on Indo-European linguistics. His main contributions concern the etymology, phonology and morphology of Proto-Indo-European and Indo-European languages, especially Latin and Greek. His book on the Latin verbal system was favorably received, as shown by positive reviews by the American linguist Andrew Miles Byrd in Kratylos, and by the French linguist Jean-Paul Brachet in the Bulletin de la Société de Linguistique de Paris.
He was invited in 2015 by the French popular science journal La Recherche to represent the point of view of linguists on the Indo-European theory in a debate with the French archeologist Jean-Paul Demoule, following the publication of a book in which the latter expresses skepticism about the Indo-European hypothesis.
He also published two novels in French, in 2010 and 2017. A Czech translation of his first novel, L'Héritage de Glace, was published in 2012.
Along with linguist Xavier Delamarre, he is the founding editor of the French academic journal Wékwos dedicated to Indo-European studies.

Books

Academic:
  • 2004. Thèmes grecs, Ophrys, 224 pages
  • 2008. Textes épiques sanskrits, Ophrys, 225 pages
  • 2010. Sur le vocalisme radical du verbe Latin, Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft, Innsbruck, 134, 519 pages
  • 2017. La Dérivation inverse en latin, Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft, Innsbruck, 157, 524 pages
  • 2017. Scripta Selecta, Les Cent Chemins, Paris, 547 pages
Novels:
  • 2010 L'Héritage de Glace, Paris, Plon..
  • 2012 Mrazivé dědictví, Prague, PLUS
  • 2017 L'encre et la chair, Paris, Les Cent Chemins
Essays:
  • 2012 De Gaulle campagne algérienne, Éditions Elytel, Paris, co-authored with Pierre Jaylet
  • 2014 Oradour-sur-Glane : autopsie d’un massacre, Éditions Elytel, Paris