Xavier Delamarre

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Xavier Delamarre
Born (1954-06-05) 5 June 1954 (age 69)
CitizenshipFrench
Occupation(s)Linguist, lexicographer
Academic background
Education
CNRS
Notable worksDictionnaire de la langue gauloise (2001)
Dictionnaire des thèmes nominaux du gaulois (2019–)

Xavier Delamarre (French pronunciation:

Gaulish language.[1]

With linguist Romain Garnier, Delamarre is the co-publishing editor of Wékwos, a journal founded in 2014 and devoted to Indo-European comparative linguistics.[2][3]

Career

Born on 5 June 1954,

Gaulish language entitled Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise. A second enlarged edition was issued in 2003.[5][6]

Alongside his research in Indo-European and Celtic linguistics, Delamarre followed a career of diplomat from 1984 to 2014. He worked for the French diplomatic post in Helsinki (1984–86), then in Harare (1989–92), Vilnius (1992–97), Osaka (1997–98), and Ljubljana (1998–2000). From 2004 to 2006, Delamarre served as first counsellor at the French embassy in Helsinki, then as special adviser for international cooperation to the Secretary-General of the French government from 2008 to 2014. He retired from diplomatic duties in 2014 to focus on linguistic studies.[2]

Since 2019, Delamarre has been an associate researcher for the

PSL AOrOc laboratory (Archéologie & Philologie d'Orient et d'Occident). Along with Pierre-Yves Lambert, he is also the co-administrator of Thesaurus Paleo-Celticus, a CNRS project launched in 2019 and aiming to update and replace Alfred Holder's Alt-celtischer Sprachschatz (1913).[7][2]

Works

References

  1. ^ Sterckx, Claude (2002). "Xavier DELAMARRE, Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise. Une approche linguistique du vieux celtique continental". L'Antiquité Classique. 71 (1): 516–517. ... il convient de signaler d'emblée que les qualités dont fait preuve M. Delamarre le situent incontestablement au niveau des meilleurs spécialistes « académiques » en fonction.
  2. ^ a b c d "Delamarre Xavier - Archéologie & Philologie d'Orient et d'Occident". archeo.ens.fr. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
  3. ^ "Wékwos". BNF. Retrieved 19 May 2020.
  4. ^ Delamarre, Xavier (1954-....). BNF.
  5. ^ Raepsaet-Charlier, Marie-Thérèse (2004). "Xavier Delamarre, Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise. Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental". L'Antiquité Classique. 73 (1): 508–509. Nous voudrions dire ici quel apport important [le livre] a constitué pour les historiens de la Gaule romaine, épigraphistes intéressés par en particulier.
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  7. ^ AFEAF (Association Française pour l'étude de l'âge du Fer) (20 November 2019). "THESAURUS Paleo-Celticus (CNRS) – Appel à contributeurs". Le blog de l'AFEAF (in French). Retrieved 19 May 2020.