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André Roman

أندريه رومان

Notable figure 1928–2012 · Source: Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin (Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 2004), p. 618 (no al-Aqiqi page matched) · Second source: Michel Le Guern, «Roman André (1928-2012)», Dictionnaire historique des académiciens de Lyon

From France; worked in Lebanon

Field: Grammar and morphology

Affiliation

Linguist; author of a phonology of Arabic koine (1983)

Biography

Born in Tunis, he taught in its secondary schools, then lectured at the Université de Provence and at the Institut de lettres orientales of Saint Joseph University in Beirut, and became professor at Lyon 2 (1980), heading its department of Arabic studies. His doctorat d'État, on the phonology and morphology of the Arabic koine, was published in 1983; he wrote on consonant articulation in Sibawayh and al-Khalil, and published La grammaire arabe (1990), a Grammaire systématique de la langue arabe (2011) and Bashshar's poems to ʿAbda with translation and glossary (Beirut, 1972).