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André Martinet

1908 - 1999

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André Martinet (French: [ɑ̃.dʁe maʁ.ti.nɛ]; Saint-Alban-des-Villards, 12 April 1908 – Châtenay-Malabry, 16 July 1999) was a French linguist, influential due to his work on structural linguistics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of André Martinet has received more than 62,822 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). André Martinet is the 40th most popular linguist (down from 39th in 2019), the 1,613th most popular biography from France (up from 1,624th in 2019) and the 4th most popular French Linguist.

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    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.28

    Effective Languages (L*)

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, André Martinet ranks 40 out of 161Before him are Jan Baudouin de Courtenay, Edgar de Wahl, Alexandre de Rhodes, Bedřich Hrozný, Benjamin Lee Whorf, and Vasily Radlov. After him are Gabdulkhay Akhatov, Vilhelm Thomsen, Leonard Bloomfield, George Lakoff, Joseph Greenberg, and Charles Bally.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, André Martinet ranks 74Before him are Edward Dmytryk, Max Bill, Cus D'Amato, Tex Avery, Amintore Fanfani, and Lionel Stander. After him are Viktor Abakumov, Giovannino Guareschi, Remedios Varo, Eduard Roschmann, Rómulo Betancourt, and Atahualpa Yupanqui. Among people deceased in 1999, André Martinet ranks 55Before him are Fabrizio De André, Joe D'Amato, Bernard Buffet, Rafael Alberti, Amintore Fanfani, and João Figueiredo. After him are Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa, Gyula Zsengellér, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Alfredo Kraus, Dusty Springfield, and David Ogilvy.

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In France

Among people born in France, André Martinet ranks 1,613 out of 6,011Before him are Édouard Stephan (1837), Barthélemy Catherine Joubert (1769), Henri Cartan (1904), Marie Casimire Louise de La Grange d'Arquien (1641), Thoinot Arbeau (1520), and Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly (1808). After him are Agrippa d'Aubigné (1552), Claude Françoise de Lorraine (1612), Jean-Marie Lustiger (1926), Pierre Balmain (1914), Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (1689), and Louise Labé (1524).

Among LINGUISTS In France

Among linguists born in France, André Martinet ranks 4Before him are Georges Dumézil (1898), Antoine Meillet (1866), and Alexandre de Rhodes (1591). After him are Émile Littré (1801), Louis de Beaufront (1855), Lucien Tesnière (1893), Louis Duchesne (1843), Anne Dacier (1645), Gaston Waringhien (1901), Sylvain Lévi (1863), and Arsène Darmesteter (1846).