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David Cohen

دافيد كوهين

Notable figure 1922–2013 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 1, p. 296; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 924 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Cohen, David (1922-2013), born Tunis, died Marseille 9 March 2013; Semitic linguist, EPHE and Paris III

Field: Philology and Semitics

Affiliation

Linguist; author of the Dictionnaire des racines sémitiques

Biography

Born in Tunis, he studied under Marcel Cohen, taught Semitic linguistics at the Sorbonne and was a directeur d'études at the École pratique des hautes études in Paris. He began the Dictionnaire des racines sémitiques in 1955, its first volume appearing in 1970, and wrote on the addad (words with opposite meanings) in Arabic (1961), on the diversity of Arabic dialects (1973) and on the Arabic of Jijel (1959).