Fauconnier, Gilles

found: Information from 678 converted Dec. 11, 2014(attaché de recherches au CNRS en mathématiques, docteur en linguistique; l'Universite de Paris VIII Vincennes; b. 8/19/44)

found: UC San Diego campus notice, Feb. 25, 2021(Gilles Raymond Fauconnier, distinguished professor emeritus of cognitive science, died February 3, 2021. He was 76; scholar whose work was centered in the fields of cognitive science and linguistics. His book "Mental Spaces" (first published in 1984) is a seminal work in cognitive semantics; Born in Vannes, France, on August 19, 1944; Ph.D. in linguistics from UC San Diego in 1971 ... He also earned a doctorate in linguistics from the University of Paris-VIII in 1973, and a Docteur des Lettres et Sciences Humaines in 1976 from the University of Paris-VII; Early in his professional career, Fauconnier taught in the program of Language Sciences at University of Paris-VIII and at the Ecole Polytechnique and served as a director of research at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. In 1988, Fauconnier joined the newly formed Department of Cognitive Science at UC San Diego as a founding faculty member. Here, he remained for the rest of his academic career) - http://adminrecords.ucsd.edu/Notices/2021/2021-2-25-3.html