Les Dialectes Indo-Européens [Collection Linguistique publiée par La Société de Linguistique de Paris. – I]

Meillet, A. Les Dialectes Indo-Européens [Collection Linguistique publiée par La Société de Linguistique de Paris. – I]. Paris: Librairie Ancienne Edouard Champion, 1950. Reprint. Quarto. 138, [2]pp. Original printed wrappers with publisher’s logo on front wrap and title page. Previous owner’s name (Herbert H. Paper*) on front free endpaper, and dated Feb. 1951. Authoritative monograph on Indo-European dialects by Antoine Meillet (1866-1936), one of the most important French linguists of the early 20th century. Today Meillet is remembered as the mentor of an entire generation of linguists and philologists who would become central to French linguistics in the twentieth century, such as Émile Benveniste, Georges Dumézil, and André Martinet. Wrappers sunned on spine and along edges. Book block detached from wrappers. Age-toning along paper margin. Text in French. Wrappers and interior in overall fair to good condition. Fair-Good. Paperback.

*Dr. Herbert Harry Paper (1925-2012) was Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and near Eastern Languages, and the Editor of the Hebrew Union College Annual, HUC-JIR/Cincinnati. He received a doctorate from the University of Chicago. Dr. Paper taught at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and joined HUC-JIR as the Dean of Graduate Studies. His specialties were Persian studies, concentrating on the history of the Persian language and on the ancient languages of Iran, and Yiddish literature. (36007) $65