Baudouin de Courtenay
Jan Niecisław Ignacy Baudouin de Courtenay (13 March 1845 – 3 November 1929) was a Polish linguist and Slavist, best known for his theory of the phoneme and phonetic alternations. Professor at the universities of Kazan, Tartu, Cracow, Saint Petersburg (where he was known as Ivan Aleksandrovich Boduen de Kurtene), and Warsaw, Baudouin de Courtenay created and elaborated the theory of phonemics in linguistics and founded the psychological (the so-called Kazan) school of linguistics.
Literature
- A Baudouin de Courtenay Anthology, The beginnings of structural linguistics, translated and edited with an introduction by Edward Stankiewicz, Indiana University Studies in the history and theory of linguistics, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, London, 1972, 406 pp.
- Jan Baudouin de Courtenay, Ausgewdhlte Werke in deutscher Sprache, Mit einem Vorwort von Ewelina Malachowska, Herausgegeben von Joachim Mugdan. Munchen, Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 1984, 278 pp.
- Joachim Mugdan, Jan Baudouin de Courtenay (1845 1929). Leben und Werk, Munchen, Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 1984, 238 pp.
