Bernard Cerquiglini

Bernard Cerquiglini (born 1947 in Lyon, France), is a French linguist.

A Graduate of the École normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud, having received an agrégé and a doctorate in letters, he was a teacher of lingusitic in , former director of the National Institute for the French language, former vice-president of the "Conseil supérieur de la langue française" and president of the French National Reading Observatory. In 1995 Bernard Cerquiglini joined the Oulipo. He was in charge of a governmental studies on a French orthography reform and about national languages in France.

Currently, he is in charge the [http://appl003.lsu.edu/artsci/frenchweb.nsf/$Content/Cerquiglini?OpenDocument Center for French and Francophone Studies] in the Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

He also presents the short linguistic program called " Merci professeur !", on TV5, a French-language global television network.

External links

* [http://www.tv5.org/TV5Site/lf/merci_professeur.php Web site of the TV5 program "Merci professeur !"for see online]
* [http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/dglf/lang-reg/rapport_cerquiglini/langues-france.html Les langues de la France, Rapport au Ministre de l'Education Nationale, de la Recherche et de la Technologie]
* [http://www.oulipo.net/oulipiens/Bernard Cerquiglini page on Oulipo web site]