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Gérard Troupeau

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Notable figure 1927–2010 · Source: ʿAbd al-ʿAziz al-Humaid, Aʿmal al-mustashriqin al-ʿarabiyya fi al-muʿjam al-ʿarabi: dirasa wa-taqwim (PhD thesis, Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University, 1433 AH), vol. 1, p. 286 · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, authority record (GND 132012812): Troupeau, Gérard, born 25 Oct. 1927, died 16 Dec. 2010, professor at INALCO 1961–1990

Field: Grammar and lexicography

Affiliation

Philologist; author of an index to Sibawayh's Kitab (1976)

Biography

He taught Arabic at the national institute of oriental languages (INALCO) in Paris from 1961 to 1990. His Lexique-index du Kitāb de Sībawayhi (Paris 1976), a full word index to Sibawayh's book, became a key to the earliest grammatical terminology.