Joseph Vendryes

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Joseph Vendryes
Born	(1875-01-13)13 January 1875 Paris, French Third Republic
Died	30 January 1960(1960-01-30) (aged 85) Paris, France
Alma mater	University of Paris
Known for	Work in Celtic linguistics Vendryes's law
Scientific career
Fields	linguistics
Institutions	École Pratique des Hautes Études

Joseph Vendryes or Vendryès (French: [vɑ̃dʁiɛs]; 13 January 1875 – 30 January 1960) was a French Celtic linguist.^[1] After studying with Antoine Meillet, he was chairman of Celtic languages and literature at the École Pratique des Hautes Études. He founded the journal Études Celtiques. He was a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres and a consultant with the International Auxiliary Language Association, which standardized and presented Interlingua.^[2]

He studied the phenomenon of syntactic dislocation.