<p style="text-align:justify; margin-bottom:11px"><strong><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span calibri="" style="font-family:"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times="">R&eacute;sum&eacute;</span></span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span calibri="" style="font-family:"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times="">Lucien Tesni&egrave;re enseigne &agrave; la Facult&eacute; des Lettres de Strasbourg de 1924 &agrave; 1937. Il est maitre de conf&eacute;rences, directeur de l&rsquo;Institut de langue et litt&eacute;ratures slaves, o&ugrave; il enseigne principalement le russe et le slov&egrave;ne. Le <i>Bulletin de la Facult&eacute; des Lettres de Strasbourg</i>, qui parait r&eacute;guli&egrave;rement depuis 1922, montre que Tesni&egrave;re est tr&egrave;s actif d&egrave;s son installation &agrave; Strasbourg. Il participe r&eacute;guli&egrave;rement aux s&eacute;minaires de recherche de la facult&eacute;, o&ugrave; sont accueillis des sp&eacute;cialistes de renom tels qu&rsquo;&Eacute;mile Benveniste&nbsp;; il donne &eacute;galement des conf&eacute;rences, notamment aux &eacute;tudiants &eacute;trangers inscrits aux Cours d&rsquo;&eacute;t&eacute; de l&rsquo;Institut <span style="color:black">d&rsquo;&eacute;tudes fran&ccedil;aises modernes.</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span calibri="" style="font-family:"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times="">En lien avec ses enseignements et ses s&eacute;minaires, Tesni&egrave;re publie ses premiers articles, qui traitent de questions linguistiques vari&eacute;es et parlent des grands chercheurs de son temps (Bally, Benveniste, Damourette &amp; Pichon, Meillet, etc.). Son travail pionnier sur les langues slaves l&rsquo;oriente vers la linguistique g&eacute;n&eacute;rale qu&rsquo;il associe, comme Bally, &agrave; la linguistique fran&ccedil;aise, notamment dans ses &eacute;tudes des temps du verbe o&ugrave; il recherche des lois g&eacute;n&eacute;rales compl&eacute;t&eacute;es par des lois sp&eacute;cifiques pour les langues particuli&egrave;res. En permanence, ses recherches linguistiques se nourrissent de ses enseignements, notamment de langues slaves, et c&rsquo;est &agrave; la fois en grammairien et en didacticien qu&rsquo;il publie, en 1934, sa <i>Petite grammaire russe</i>.</span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span calibri="" style="font-family:"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times="">Le cheminement syntaxique de Tesni&egrave;re commence avec son article <i>Comment construire une syntax</i>e <span style="color:black">(1933). Ses recherches et ses &eacute;crits, tout au long des ann&eacute;es 1930, sont les pr&eacute;mices de sa conception </span>structurale de la syntaxe&nbsp;: les stemmas et les translations sont d&eacute;j&agrave; utilis&eacute;s dans sa grammaire russe, et la distinction entre l&rsquo;ordre lin&eacute;aire et l&rsquo;ordre structural est pos&eacute;e dans ses articles sur les temps du verbe. La lecture compar&eacute;e de ces travaux, dont certains sont tr&egrave;s peu connus, permet ainsi de remonter aux sources des <i>&Eacute;l&eacute;ments de syntaxe structurale</i> (1959).</span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span calibri="" style="font-family:"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times="">Dans cette perspective, notre article se propose de retracer le cheminement de Tesni&egrave;re, et de d&eacute;crire, &agrave; l&rsquo;appui de sources issues du <i>Bulletin de la Facult&eacute; des Lettres de Strasbourg</i>, comment s&rsquo;est forg&eacute;e la vision tesni&eacute;rienne de la grammaire et de son enseignement. Pour cela, nous &eacute;tudions la p&eacute;riode strasbourgeoise en trois temps&nbsp;:</span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span calibri="" style="font-family:"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times="">&bull; une approche historique, montrant la place de Tesni&egrave;re face aux questions et aux d&eacute;bats de son temps&nbsp;; </span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span calibri="" style="font-family:"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times="">&bull; une approche linguistique, qui d&eacute;crit l&rsquo;articulation progressive des concepts du chercheur&nbsp;;</span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span calibri="" style="font-family:"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times=""><span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">&bull; une approche didactique, o&ugrave; l&rsquo;on s&rsquo;int&eacute;resse aux outils et aux m&eacute;thodes &eacute;labor&eacute;es par le grammairien pour l&rsquo;enseignement/apprentissage des langues.</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span calibri="" style="font-family:"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times="">L&rsquo;&eacute;tude a ainsi pour ambition, en faisant mieux connaitre les premi&egrave;res ann&eacute;es de Tesni&egrave;re enseignant et chercheur, d&rsquo;apporter un &eacute;clairage nouveau sur la g&eacute;n&eacute;alogie de son &oelig;uvre.</span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span calibri="" style="font-family:"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times=""><strong>Mots-cl&eacute;s</strong>&nbsp;: Tesni&egrave;re, Strasbourg, linguistique fran&ccedil;aise, syntaxe, historiographie de la linguistique, didactique des langues.</span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin-bottom:11px"><strong><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span calibri="" style="font-family:"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times=""><span style="color:black">Abstract</span></span></span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span calibri="" style="font-family:"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times="">Lucien Tesni&egrave;re&#39;s tenure at the Facult&eacute; des Lettres in Strasbourg from 1924 to 1937 marked the inception of a structural approach to syntax. During this period, he served as a lecturer and directed the Institut de langue et litt&eacute;ratures slaves, primarily instructing in Russian and Slovene. The Bulletin de la Facult&eacute; des Lettres de Strasbourg, a publication dating back to 1922, bears witness to Tesni&egrave;re&#39;s remarkable activity upon his arrival in Strasbourg. He actively engaged in the faculty&#39;s research seminars, attended by luminaries such as &Eacute;mile Benveniste. He also delivered lectures, especially for foreign students participating in the summer courses of the Institut d&#39;&eacute;tudes fran&ccedil;aises modernes.<span style="color:black">In connection with his teaching and seminars, Tesni&egrave;re published his first articles, which dealt with a variety of linguistic issues and discussed the great researchers of his time (Bally, Benveniste, Damourette &amp; Pichon, Meillet, etc.).</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span calibri="" style="font-family:"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times=""><span style="color:black">His pioneering work on Slavic languages drew him towards general linguistics, which, like Bally, he associated with French linguistics, particularly in his studies of verb tenses, where he sought general laws supplemented by specific laws for particular languages. His linguistic research was constantly enriched by his teaching, particularly of Slavic languages, and it was as both a grammarian and a teacher that he published his Petite grammaire russe in 1934.</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span calibri="" style="font-family:"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times="">Tesni&egrave;re&#39;s journey into syntax took its initial steps with his 1933 article, &quot;Comment construire une syntaxe.&quot; Throughout the 1930s, his research and writings formed the foundation for his structural conception of syntax. Concepts like stemmas and translations already found a place in his Russian grammar, while the distinction between linear order and structural order became evident in his studies on verb tenses. A comparative analysis of these somewhat obscure works reveals the roots of &quot;&Eacute;l&eacute;ments de syntaxe structurale&quot; (1959).</span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span calibri="" style="font-family:"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times="">In light of these developments, our article endeavors to trace Tesni&egrave;re&#39;s trajectory and elucidate the evolution of his views on grammar and its pedagogical applications. To this end, we will examine the Strasbourg period through three distinct lenses:</span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify; text-indent:0cm; margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span calibri="" style="font-family:"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times="">1. </span><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times="">A historical perspective, positioning Tesni&egrave;re in the context of the contemporary questions and debates of his era.</span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify; text-indent:0cm; margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span calibri="" style="font-family:"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times="">2. </span><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times="">A linguistic analysis, delineating the gradual refinement of his theoretical constructs.</span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify; text-indent:0cm; margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span calibri="" style="font-family:"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times="">3. </span><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times="">A didactic exploration, honing in on the tools and methodologies devised by this grammarian for language instruction and acquisition.</span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span calibri="" style="font-family:"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times=""><span style="color:black"><strong>Key words</strong>: Tesni&egrave;re, Strasbourg, French linguistics, syntax, historiography of linguistics, language teaching.</span></span></span></span></span></p>