Louis Alibert

Louis Alibert ( born October 12, 1884 in Bram, Aude, † April 16, 1959 in Montpellier) was a French linguist and Okzitanist.

Life and work

Alibert 1912-1942 pharmacist in Montreal d' Aude, but had also studied with Joseph Anglade Provenzalistik. After participation in the First World War and wounded, he joined the Action Française and the Félibrige and engaged in the language description and language planning of Occitan and Languedokischen with significant contributions. From Pétain's Vichy regime he hoped a critical appreciation and promotion of the Occitan language and culture. After the liberation of France, he was sentenced to five years in prison under withdrawing public and political rights for life.

Works

• Le lengadoucian literary, Toulouse 1923
• Gramatica Occitana segon going parlars lengadocians, 2 vols, Toulouse 1935-1937 ( printed in Barcelona); 2nd edition in one volume, Montpellier 1976, 2000 ( contains the chapters: orthography, phonology, morphology, syntax, word formation, spelling dictionary )
• (Ed. with René Nelli ) Les Troubadours de l' Aude, in: Pyrénées 2, 1941, p 116-210
• ( with René Nelli ) VII troubadours of the pays d' Aude: Guillem de Durfort, Guillem Fabre, Bernat Alanhan, BERENGIER de Poivert, I Bernart, Bernart de Rouvenac, anonymous, Carcassonne 1948
• Dictionnaire occitan - français d'après les Parler languedociens, Toulouse 1965, Neuflage 1977, 6th edition 1997 ( 703 pages)
• Proverbes de l' Aude, classés et mis en orthographe occitane par Raymond Chabbert Andouque 1998