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.
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