Viggo Brøndal

Rasmus Viggo Brondal ( born October 13, 1887 in Copenhagen, † December 14, 1942 in Copenhagen) was a Danish linguist and philosopher of language.

Life and work

Brondal studied in Copenhagen at the Romanists Kristoffer Nyrop and the philosopher Harald Høffding, and from 1912 to 1913 in Paris under Antoine Meillet and Joseph Bédier. He did his PhD on Substrater above Laan i Romansk above Germansk [ substrate and borrowing in the Romance and Germanic ], Copenhagen 1917 ( French udT substrate et emprunt en roman et en germanique. Etude sur l' histoire des sons et des mots, Copenhagen 1948), a work, in which he had already incorporates the knowledge from reading the recently published Cours Ferdinand de Saussure. From 1925 to 1928 he was Danish lecturer at the Sorbonne, from 1928 until his death professor of Romance Philology in Copenhagen. In 1931 he founded, together with Louis Hjelmslev the Copenhagen Linguistic Circle ( along the lines of the Prague Linguistic Circle ) and in 1939 the journal Acta Linguistica.

Other works

• Ordklasserne ( Partes orationis ). Studier over de sprolige Kategorier [ with a French summary of 50 pages], Copenhagen 1928 (French udT Les parties du discours. Partes orationis. Etudes sur les catégories linguistiques, Copenhagen 1948)
• Morfologi above syntax, Copenhagen 1932
• Le Français: langue abstraite, Copenhagen 1936
• ( Translation along with Valdemar Hansen) René Descartes, Discours de la Méthode, dansk oversettelse, Copenhagen 1937
• Praepositionernes theori, Copenhagen 1940 (French udT Théorie des prepositions, Copenhagen 1950)
• Essais de linguistique générale, Copenhagen 1943 ( with an annotated bibliography).