Nicolas Ruwet

Nicolas Ruwet ( born December 31, 1932 in Saive, Blegny; † 14 November 2001 in Paris) was a French linguist and Romance Belgian origin.

Life and work

Ruwet studied in Liège and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he came into contact with the generative grammar. He searched first in Belgium, then as a professor at the University of Paris VIII, founded in 1971

Ruwet was also musikologisch competent.

Works

• From the contradictions of the serial language, in: The number 6, 1960, pp. 59-70 (in French: Conctradictions du langage serial, in: Revue belge de musicologie 13, 1959, pp. 83-87, also in: Langage, musique, Grammar, Paris 1972, p 23-40 )
• (Translators and eds ) Roman Jakobson, Essais de linguistique générale, Paris 1963 2003
• (Ed.) La grammaire generative, in: Langages 4, 1966
• Introduction à la grammaire generative, Paris 1967, 2nd edition 1970 ( English: Amsterdam / London 1973, Spanish: Madrid 1974, Italian Florence 1979)
• Langage, musique, poésie, Paris 1972, 1992 ( Italian: Torino 1983)
• Théorie et syntaxique syntaxe du français, Paris 1972, 1987
• (Ed., together with Ferenc Kiefer ) Generative grammar in Europe, Dordrecht 1973
• (Ed. together with Christian Rohrer ) Actes du franco- allemand de colloque grammaire transformation nelle, 2 vols, Tübingen 1974
• (Ed. with Julia Kristeva, Jean -Claude Milner ) Langue, discours, société, Émile Benveniste pour, Paris 1975
• Grammaire the insultes et autres études, Paris 1982
• Synecdoche and metonymy, in: Theory of Metaphor, ed. by Anselm Haverkamp, Darmstadt 1983, pp. 253-282 (Translation from the Frz. )
• Linguistica e poetica, Bologna 1986
• Syntax and human experience, ed. and translated by John Goldsmith, Chicago / Londres 1991
• (Ed.) Francs- tireurs de la linguistique, in: Recherches de Vincennes linguistiques 22, 1993
• (Ed., together with Jean -Michel Gouvard and Marc Dominicy ) Linguistique et après poétique Jakobson, in: Langue française 110, 1996