André Goosse

André Goosse ( born April 16, 1926 in Liège ) is a Belgian linguist and grammarian.

Life and work

Goosse spent his childhood in Houffalize and his high school diploma in Stavelot. He studied from 1945 to 1949 at the Catholic University of Leuven. In 1959 he habilitated at Omer Jodogne with the publication of Jean d' Outremeuse, Ly myreur of histors. Fragment du livre second ( années 794-826 ), Bruxelles 1965. 1967 he was at the Catholic University of Louvain ( Louvain- la -Neuve later ) Professor of Romance Philology, in the same year, founding member and later president of the Conseil international de la langue française 1976 Member of the Royal Belgian Academy, perpétuel 1996-2001 Secrétaire her, since 1989, member of the Conseil supérieur de la langue française en France. In 1991 he became Professor Emeritus.

Goosse was since 1950 son and confidant of Maurice Grevisse ( 1895-1980 ). He took over from his father in 1966, the chronicle language in the newspaper La Libre Belgique, after his death, the care of the famous grammar Le bon usage. Grammaire française ( first 1936), which he in the 12th and 13th edition (1986, 1993) carefully and in the 14th edition ( 2007), more to travel up into the modern linguistics.

After the death of his first wife married Goosse 1988, the writer France Bastia.

Other works

• Façons de parler, Gembloux 1971
• La Neology française aujourd'hui, Paris 1975
• Nouvelle grammaire française (along with Maurice Grevisse ), Gembloux 1989
• La nouvelle orthographe. Exposé et commentaires, Louvain- la -Neuve 1991
• ( Participation ) Belgicismes. Inventaire of particularités lexicales du français en Belgique, Louvain- la -Neuve 1994
• ( Participation ) Une langue une communauté. Le français en Belgique, Louvain- la -Neuve 1997
• Façons Belges de parler, Bruxelles 2011 (Collection of language chronicles )