Nina Catach

French linguist and linguistic historian

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Nina Catach (born 1923 in Cairo, Egypt – died 1997 in Paris, France) was a French linguist and linguistic historian who specialized in the history of French orthography.^[1] She worked at the CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique) and published many notable books.

She had two sons and a daughter, Irène Rosier-Catach, a linguist and philosopher, and Laurent Catach, an editor of Dictionnaire Le Robert.

Works

L'orthographe française, Nathan, 1980
Orthographe et lexicographie, Nathan, 1981
Les listes orthographiques de base du français, Nathan, 1984
'New linguistic approaches to a theory of writing'. In: Battestini, S.P.X. (ed.) Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1986. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press (1986), pp. 161–174.
Dictionnaire historique de l'orthographe française, Larousse, 1994

References

^ Honvault, Renée (2009). "Catach, Nina". In Harro Stammerjohann (ed.). Lexicon Grammaticorum: A bio-bibliographical companion to the history of linguistics. Walter de Gruyter. pp. 272–3. ISBN 978-3-484-97112-7.