Jan Baudouin de Courtenay
Jan Niecisław Ignacy Baudouin de Courtenay, also Ivan Alexandrovich Baudouin de Courtenay (Russian: Иван Александрович Бодуэн де Куртенэ; 13 March 1845 – 3 November 1929) was a Russian and Polish linguist and Slavist, best known for his theory of the phoneme and phonetic alternations.
Jan Baudouin de Courtenay | |
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| Born | 13 March 1845: 70 Radzymin, Warsaw Governorate, Congress Poland, Russian Empire |
| Died | 3 November 1929 (aged 84) Warsaw, Second Polish Republic |
Main interests | Phonology |
Notable ideas | Theory of the phoneme and phonetic alternations |
For most of his life Baudouin de Courtenay worked at Imperial Russian universities: Kazan (1874–1883), Dorpat (now Estonia) (1883–1893), Kraków (1893–1899) in Austria-Hungary, and St. Petersburg (1900–1918). In 1919–1929 he was a professor at the re-established University of Warsaw in a once again independent Poland.
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