UN FRANCOPHONE QUI A SU ET A PU SURMONTER LES ÉPOQUES : GRIGORE CINCILEI (1927-1999)

Abstract

Romance linguistics of the 20th century was lucky: the cohort of theoretical and practical researchers is unforgettable from Antoine Meillet (1866-1936) to Carlo Tagliavini (1903-1983), from Iorgu Iordan (1888-1986), to Eugeniu Coseriu (1921- 2002)... And so many more famous. Among these illustrious names we find that of Grigore Cincilei (1927-1999), a scrupulous theoretical researcher of the minimal units of the lexeme: moneme, morpheme, grammateme, sememe, tememe, semanteme, word- syntheme as meaningful basic units both lexical and properly morphological. His studies have been appreciated all over the linguistic world: in Paris and Lausanne, Bucharest and Iași, Moscow and Sankt-Petersburg, in Kyiv and Cernăuți... We are still missing an integral work by Grigore Cincilei on the theory and terminology of the components of the word. Grigore Cincilei was a true patriot, a fighter for the triumph of the Romanian language in Bessarabia. His credo was very close to that of Aleco Russo: “Wake up, save the Fatherland and its language if one day you aspire to be truly happy and free”. These lines are intended as a sincere and modest tribute in memory of the One who had the name of Grigore Cincilei.