Romain Garnier, Date of Birth

    

Romain Garnier

French writer and linguist

Date of Birth: 30-Dec-1976

Profession: writer, linguist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Romain Garnier

  • Romain Garnier is a French linguist born in 1976, specialized in Indo-European linguistics.
  • He has been an Assistant Professor (Maître de Conférences) since 2005 at the University of Limoges.
  • He was the recipient of the Prix Emile Benveniste in 2010, and became a member of the Institut Universitaire de France in 2013.He has authored more than 20 articles and two books on Indo-European linguistics.
  • His main contributions concern the etymology, phonology and morphology of Proto-Indo-European and Indo-European languages, especially Latin and Greek.
  • His book on the Latin verbal system was favorably received, as shown by positive reviews by the American linguist Andrew Miles Byrd (University of Kentucky) in Kratylos,[N 1] and by the French linguist Jean-Paul Brachet (Paris-Sorbonne University) in the Bulletin de la Société de Linguistique de Paris.He was invited in 2015 by the French popular science journal La Recherche to represent the point of view of linguists on the Indo-European theory in a debate with the French archeologist Jean-Paul Demoule, following the publication of a book in which the latter expresses skepticism about the Indo-European hypothesis.He also published two novels in French, in 2010 and 2017.
  • A Czech translation of his first novel, L'Héritage de Glace, was published in 2012. He is the founding editor of the French academic journal Wékwos dedicated to Indo-European studies (founded in 2014).,

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