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Meillet

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Meil·let  (m-y), Antoine 1866-1936.
French linguist and Indo-Europeanist. He was the author of over two dozen books and reference works that are still widely consulted, including The Comparative Method in Historical Linguistics (1925).


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For us, this means that our preparation was the best and our work was recognised," says Meillet.
This too is a well-known, not contentious fact within the field (compare Korhonen 1996), as it is not contentious that the reconstruction of morphology represents an essential, if not the primary, element in establishing relatedness (see Meillet 1967 : 41; Nichols 1992 : 13).
Definition and aim Grammaticalisation was first defined by Antoine Meillet in 1912 as "the shift of an independent word to the status of a grammatical element", a process sometimes described as desemanticization (for criticism, cf.
 
 
 
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