Georges Bohas Explained

Georges Bohas (born in 1946) is a French professor emeritus at École normale supérieure de Lyon, a member of the Institut Universitaire de France, and a specialist in the editing and translation of Semitic and Arabic texts.^{[1] [2]} He is a member of the laboratory ICAR.^{[3] [4]}

G. Bohas holds a French agrégation diploma in Arabic.^[3]

Contributions

G. Bohas is following Ernest Renan, with the revolutionary linguistic movement MER (an acronym for the elements of his new theory, matrices, étymons, radicaux), which seeks to innove this traditional lexicon system of Arabic and, by extension, that of the set of Semitic languages. For Bohas (and his disciples), triliter or triconsonant radicals are nothing but expansions (by rearrangement, reduplication, or consonant or semivowel increase) of articulatory binary ethics (what we might in fact call "biconsonanttic roots").^[5]

Awards

• Senior Member of the IUF (2007).^[3]

Some works

• Book: Matrices, étymons, racines: éléments d'une théorie lexicologique du vocabulaire arabe. Orbis (Leuven).: Supplementa; Orbis (Louvain, Belgium).: Supplementa Orbis / Supplementa; Orbis. Supplementa. 8. Peeters Publishers. 1997. 9789068319170.
• Une lecture laïque du Coran, Georges Bohas, Gérard Roquet, 2018
• Islam et bonne gouvernance au XIXe siècle dans les sources arabes du Fouta-Djalon, Georges Bohas, Alfa Mamadou Lelouma, Abderrahim Saguer, Bernard Salvaing, Ahyaf Sinno. Geuthner, pp. 220, 2018, Les manuscrits sauvés des sables “the saved manuscripts from the sands”. 2018
• The Motivation of the Linguistic Sign in the Arabic Grammatical Tradition, Georges Bohas, Abderrahim Saguer, Nobile, L. Towards a History of Sound Symbolic Theories, John Benjamins, In press, 2019

Notes and References

1. D. E.. Kouloughli. 2002. Reviewed Work: Matrices et étymons: développements de la théorie by Georges Bohas. Arabica. 49. 3. 387–393. 4057659.
2. The Arabic Linguistic Tradition. By Georges Bohas, Jean-Patrick Guillaume & Djamel Eddin Kouloughli. Michael G. Carter. Historiographia Linguistica. 19. 2–3. January 1992. 361–367. 10.1075/hl.19.2-3.17car.
3. Web site: Georges Bohas, Professor, ICAR. École normale supérieure de Lyon. 18 March 2020.
4. Web site: Georges Bohas. UMR 5191 ICAR – Professeur des universités. Interactions, Corpus, Apprentissages et Représentations.
5. Ignacio Márquez Rowe. Georges Bohas et Mihai Dat, Une théorie de l'organisation du lexique des langues sémitiques. 327–328. Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez. 38. 1. 2008.