About Claude Buridant
Born 1938. Claude Buridant is a French linguist, university teacher and philologist.
Claude Buridant (born 12 February 1938, in Arras) is a French linguist, professor emeritus of French and Romance philology at the University of Strasbourg (formerly Marc Bloch University) in Strasbourg. He is director of the Centre for Linguistics and Romance Philology in Strasbourg.
His research focuses on the history of translation in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, as part of the study of Romance languages, lexicography and paremiology.
He is the author of such works as a grammar of Old French.
Works 1976. Nature and function of proverbs in jeux-partis. Revue des sciences humaines 163.3 (1976): 377–418. 1976. La traduction du pseudo-Turpin du manuscrit Vatican Regina 624. Vol. 142. Librairie Droz. 1980. Les binômes synonymiques. Esquisse d'une histoire des couples de synonymes du Moyen Age au XVIIe siècle in Synonymies. Bulletin du Centre d'Analyse du discours 4 (1980): 5-76. 1981. Les proverbes et la Prédication au Moyen Age. Actas du Colloque deparémiologie. 1986. Lexicographie et glossographie médiévales. Esquisse de bilan et perspectives de recherche in Lexicographie au moyen-âge. Lexique 4 (1986): 9-46. 1987. "L'ancien français à la lumière de la typologie des langues: les résidus de l'ordre OV en ancien français et leur effacement en moyen français." Romania 108.429 (1987): 20–65. 1987. Les particules séparées en ancien français. Romanistique–Germanistique: une confrontation, C. Buridant (éd.), Strasbourg: Presses Universitaires de Strasbourg (1987): 167–204. 1987. Historische Phraseologie des Französischen. 1990. Johannes Bechert, Giuliano Bernini, Claude Buridant. Toward a Typology of European Languages. Walter de Gruyter. 1999. Nature et fonctions ses proverbes dans le Moyen-Âge français: Essai d'aperçu synthétique. Nouveaux Cahiers d'Allemand 17.3 497–513. 2003. Grammaires du vulgaire - Normes et variations de la langue française. Presses Universitaires de Vincennes. 2005. La substantivation de l'infinitif en ancien français : aperçu et perspective. Langue française 2005/3 (n° 147), pp. 98–120. 2006. L'interjection: jeux et enjeux. Langages (2006): 3–9.
Don’t just read it —
keep it.
Full-length biographies made to live with: read them, listen on the way to work, watch them tonight.
- E-book
- Audio
- Video
Instant download · yours to keep · every purchase keeps this site free
Important facts
People in Claude Buridant's life
Named in this biography and alive at the same time
Contemporaries
People whose lives overlapped Claude Buridant's
Frequently asked questions
Who is Claude Buridant?
French linguist
When was Claude Buridant born?
Claude Buridant was born on 12 February 1938 in Arras.
What is Claude Buridant's occupation?
Claude Buridant is a linguist, university teacher and philologist.
What nationality is Claude Buridant?
Claude Buridant is French.
Sources & further reading
Cite this page
APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Claude Buridant. https://biography.guide/claude-buridant/
MLA: "Claude Buridant." Biography.guide, https://biography.guide/claude-buridant/.
Chicago: "Claude Buridant." Biography.guide. https://biography.guide/claude-buridant/.
Data last updated: 2026-09-20 · Spot an error? Report a correction.
Page generated 2026-09-27 05:32 UTC