Pierre Bec Explained

Pierre Bec (in French pronounced as /pjɛʁ bɛk/; Occitan (post 1500);: Pèire Bèc; 11 December 1921 – 30 June 2014)[1] was a French Occitan-language poet and linguist. Born in Paris, he spent his childhood in Comminges, where he learnt Occitan. He was deported to Germany between 1943 and 1945. After returning, he studied in Paris, where he graduated in 1959. He was one of the founders of the IEO or Institut d'Estudis Occitans (Institute of Occitan Studies) as well as its president from 1962 to 1980.

Life

Pierre Bec spent his childhood in Cazères-sur-Garonne where he learned Gascon. In 1938, he was an interpreter for the Spanish Republican refugees who had crossed the Pyrenees, and he discovered Catalan. He was deported in March 1943 to Germany as part of the compulsory labor service.

Bec was titular professor at Poitiers university and assistant director of the Centre d'Études Supérieures de Civilisation Médiévale (Centre for high studies in medieval civilisation).[2] He is considered one of the most important specialists in Occitan dialectology and in mediaeval Occitan literature. His activity is distributed among Occitanist politics, philological research and literary creation. He collaborated with publications like Cahiers de Civilisation Médiévale, Revue de Linguistique Romane, Estudis Romànics, Oc.

In 1982 he took part in the Linguistic Normalisation commission for Aranese, with Jacme Taupiac and Miquèu Grosclaude: they established some linguistics norms, officialised in 1983, following IEO's indications for Gascon.

Bec died in Poitiers on 30 June 2014, at the age of 92.[3]

Importance for Gallo-Cisalpine language(s)

As a linguist, Pierre Bec stated, within his Manuel pratique de Philologie romane (2nd volume, p. 316) that some kind of diachronical unity holds between Rhaeto-Romance languages (i.e. Romansh, Friulian and Ladin) and Northern Italian or Cisalpine ones (Western Lombard, Eastern Lombard, Piedmontese, Venetan, Emiliano-Romagnolo and Ligurian). This issue has been further investigated by the Australian linguist Geoffrey Hull.[4]

Works

Literature

Linguistics

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Mor l'occitanista Pèire Bèc. www20.gencat.cat. 28 May 2015.
  2. News: Covell. Roger. Poets' justice; CD Reviews . Sydney Morning Herald. October 20, 2001.
  3. http://www20.gencat.cat/portal/site/Llengcat/menuitem.21576464db9e81e7a129d410b0c0e1a0/?vgnextoid=035748a344371110VgnVCM1000000b0c1e0aRCRD&vgnextchannel=035748a344371110VgnVCM1000000b0c1e0aRCRD&vgnextfmt=detall&contentid=f6ec57aa141f6410VgnVCM1000008d0c1e0aRCRD Mor l'occitanista Pèire Bèc
  4. Hull, Geoffrey, PhD thesis 1982 (University of Sydney), published as The Linguistic Unity of Northern Italy and Rhaetia: Historical Grammar of the Padanian Language. 2 vols. Sydney: Beta Crucis, 2017.
  5. Web site: Bec . Pierre . Petite anthologie de la lyrique occitane du Moyen Age: initiation à la langue et à la poésie des troubadours . Aubanel . 15 November 2021 . fr . 1954.
  6. Web site: Davenson . Henri . Les " Saluts d'amour " du troubadour Arnaud de Mareuil, éd. Pierre Bec, avec introduction, traduction et notes . Cahiers de Civilisation Médiévale . 15 November 2021 . 475 . 1962.
  7. News: Smith. Alex Duval. Europe: The tongue of the troubadours lives on - Babel. The Guardian. July 26, 1991.
  8. Web site: Brusegan . Rosanna . Pierre Bec. — Burlesque et obscénité chez les troubadours. Le contre-texte au moyen âge, 1984 (" Moyen âge ") . Cahiers de Civilisation Médiévale . 15 November 2021 . 67–69 . 1990.
  9. Web site: Chants d'amour des femmes-troubadours : trobairitz et chansons de femme . Stock . 15 November 2021 . 1995.
  10. Web site: Bec . Pierre . Au briu de l'estona : poemas / Pierre Bec Bec, Pierre, 1921-2014 . bibliotheques.avignon.fr . 15 November 2021.
  11. Book: Bec . Pierre . Sonets barrocs enta Iseut . Institut d'Estudis Occitans . 15 November 2021 . Occitan . 1979. 489945977 .
  12. Book: Bec . Pierre . Manuel pratique d'occitan moderne . A. & J. Picard . 15 November 2021 . fr . 1973. 9782708400894 .
  13. Web site: Séguy . Jean . Bec (P.), Manuel pratique de philologie romane, vol. I, 558 p., 11 cartes ; vol. II, 643 p., 14 cartes ; Paris, Picard, 1970-1971 . Annales du Midi . 15 November 2021 . 98–99 . 1972.
  14. Web site: Séguy . Jean . Bec (Pierre), Les interférences linguistiques entre gascon et languedocien dans les parlers du Comminges et du Couserans (Publications de la Faculté des lettres et sciences humaines de Poitiers n° V, Paris P.U.F., 1968) . Annales du Midi . 15 November 2021 . 204–206 . 1970.

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