Volney Prize

Volney Prize

The Volney Prize ( _fr. Prix Volney) is awarded by the Institute of France after proposition by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres to a work of comparative philology.

The prize was founded by Constantin Volney in 1803 and was originally a gold medal worth 1,200 francs [Joan Leopold (Ed.) 1999. "The Prix Volney: Its History and Significance for the Development of Linguistic Research". Vol.1a p.83. Kluwer Academic Publishers.]

Recipients include

* Nicolas Massias (1828)
* Jean-Pierre Darrigol (1829)
* Peter Stephen DuPonceau, "Mémoire sur le systeme grammatical des langues de quelques nations Indiennes de l'Amérique du Nord" (1838)
* Theodor Benfey, "Lexicon of Greek Roots"
* Eugène Burnouf
* Ernest Renan, "General History of Semitic Languages" (1847)
* Albin de Chevallet, "Études philologiques et historiques sur l'origine et la formation de la langue française" (1850)
* Count Franz Xaver von Miklosisch, "Vergleichende Formenlehre ders slavischen Sprachen" (1857)
* L.-F. Meunier, " _fr. Les Composés qui contiennent un verbe à un mode personnel en latin, en français, en italien et en espagnol" (1873)
* Robert Caesar Childers "A Dictionary of the Pali Language" (1876)
* Gustave Guillaume, "Le problème de l'article et sa solution dans la langue française" (1917)
* Antoine Grégoire, "L'apprentissage du langage"
* Claude Hagège (1981)

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