Eva Büchi

Éva Buchi (Eva Büchi in German) is a Swiss linguist and lexicographer specializing in the Romance languages.

Biography After leaving school in 1983 she began training as a teacher, subsequently studying French linguistics at the University of Bern, where she obtained her doctorate in 1994. From 1987 to 1993 she worked as a research assistant and editor on the French etymological dictionary project FEW (Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch) in Basel. Since 2005 she has been Research Director at ATILF, and from 2013 to 2017 she was the head of the institute.

Works Éva Buchi has written numerous entries for the French Etymological Dictionary. What follows is a small selection of her other scholarly works.

Buchi, Éva, & Wolfgang Schweickard. 2009. Romanistique et étymologie du fonds lexical héréditaire : du REW au DÉRom (Dictionnaire Étymologique Roman). (Romance philology and etymology of the inherited lexicon: from the REW to the DÉRom (Romance Etymological Dictionary).) In Carmen Alén Garabato, Teddy Arnavielle & Christian Camps (eds.), La Romanistique dans tous ses états, Paris: L’Harmattan: 97‐110. Buchi, Éva. 2010. Where Caesar's Latin does not belong: a comparative grammar based approach to Romance etymology. In Charles Brewer (ed.), Selected Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Historical Lexicography and Lexicology held at St Anne's College, Oxford, 16–18 June 2010, Oxford: Oxford University Research Archive. Buchi, Éva. 2016. Etymological dictionaries. In Philip Durkin (ed.), The Oxford handbook of lexicography, Oxford: Oxford University Press: 338-349.