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Philippe Marçais

فيليب مارسيه

Notable figure 1910–1984 · Source: CNRS, WEBBALL bibliography of Berber and Arabic linguistics, record 13065: Philippe Marçais, Esquisse grammaticale de l'arabe maghrébin (1977) · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Marçais, Philippe (1910-1984), dean of the Faculty of Letters, Algiers (1947-1958); chair of Maghrebi Arabic, Paris (1964-1978); Liège (1967-1980)

From France; worked in Algeria and Belgium

Field: Dialectology

Affiliation

Dialectologist; Esquisse grammaticale (1977)

Biography

The son of William Marçais. He taught at the Faculty of Letters in Algiers and was its dean (1947–1958), held the chair of Maghrebi Arabic at the School of Oriental Languages in Paris (1964–1978), and taught Arabic at the University of Liège. He published Textes arabes de Djidjelli (1954) and Le parler arabe de Djidjelli (1956), then the Esquisse grammaticale de l'arabe maghrébin (1977); his Parlers arabes du Fezzân appeared after his death (2001).