Marie-José Béguelin

Marie-José Béguelin (born 1949) is a Swiss linguist specializing in the Romance languages.

Biography Béguelin was born in Delémont, Switzerland, on July 21, 1949. Her father was the politician, writer and journalist Roland Béguelin. After further study and a time spent teaching Latin in Milan, she moved to Geneva in 1976 to study general linguistics at the University of Geneva. Her doctorate was awarded there in 1984 for a thesis on comparative Indo-European linguistics, specifically the morphology of Latin nouns.

Honours and awards Béguelin has been the recipient of numerous honours and awards. Her doctoral thesis received the prestigious Charles Bally Prize in 1985. of the Royal Academy of French Language and Literature of Belgium since 2008, and of the Academia Europaea since 2012. In 2008 she was appointed Knight of the Ordre des Palmes académiques of France.

Research Béguelin's academic work has ranged widely across comparative Indo-European linguistics, French linguistics and varieties of French, syntax, anaphora, discourse, language policy, and epistemology of the language sciences.

Selected publications Reichler-Béguelin, Marie-José. 1988. Anaphore, cataphore, er mémoire discursive (Anaphora, cataphora and discursive memory). Pratiques 57, 15–43. Berrendonner, Alain, and Marie-José Reichler-Béguelin. 1989. Décalages: les niveaux de l'analyse linguistique (Gaps: levels of linguistic analysis). Langue Française 81, 99–125. Apothéloz, Deniz, and Marie-José Reichler-Béguelin. 1995. Construction de la référence et stratégies de désignation (Construction of reference and strategies of designation). TRANEL. Travaux Neuchâtelois de Linguistique 23, 227–271. Béguelin, Marie-José. 1998. Le rapport écrit-oral: tendances dissimilatrices, tendances assimilatrices (The relation between writing and speech: dissimilatory and assimilatory tendencies). Cahiers de Linguistique Française 20, 229–253. Béguelin, Marie-José and Gilles Corminboeuf. 2005. De la question à l’hypothèse: aspects d'un phénomène de coalescence (From question to hypothesis: aspects of a phenomenon of coalescence). In Corinne Rossari, Anne Beaulieu-Masson, Corina Cojocariu and Anna Razgouliaeva (eds.), Les états de la question (The states of the question), 67–89. Québec: Les Éditions Nota Bene. Béguelin, Marie-José, Mathieu Avanzi and Gilles Corminboeuf (eds.). 2010. La Parataxe (Parataxis), vol. 1: Entre dépendance et intégration (Between dependence and integration). Bern: Peter Lang. Béguelin, Marie-José. 2010. Noyaux prédicatifs juxtaposés (Juxtaposed predicative nuclei). In Béguelin, Avanzi & Corminboeuf (eds.), La Parataxe, 3–33. Stähli, Adrian, Christa Dürscheid and Marie-José Béguelin. 2011. sms4science: Korpusdaten, Literaturüberblick und Forschungsfragen (sms4science: corpus data, literature review and research questions). Linguistik Online 48 (4), 3–18.