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Volney prize
The Volney Prize (French language: 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 originally totalled $240.
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 , 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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