Training and professional background
Research interests
Scientific activities
Teaching
Other international activities
Main publications and conferences
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Leave of absence since 2021/09/01
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TRAINING AND PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
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 | Systems dynamics and functional motivations in Path coding. Typological description of Homeric Greek and Old English. Advisor: Colette Grinevald.
PhD dissertation defended on Nov. 27th 2008, with high distinction.
Jury members:
- Colette Grinevald, Professor, CNRS – DDL / Université Lyon 2
- Scott DeLancey, Professor, University of Oregon
- Maya Hickmann, Directrice de recherches, CNRS – SFL / Université Paris 8
- Diana Lewis, Maître de conférence, CNRS – DDL / Université de Lyon 2
- Silvia Luraghi, Associate Professor, Université de Pavia
- Christiane Marchello-Nizia, Professor, CNRS – ICAR, ENS-LSH de Lyon
Full academic background here |
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RESEARCH INTERESTS
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| Morpheme ordering ; complexity in morphology. |
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| Path in language typology. |
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| Competing motivations. |
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| Grammaticalization processes. |
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SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES
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| 2014-2018 CNRS/TUL Program #7 "Les questionnaires : recensement, analyse, valorisation et réflexion épistémologique". Project coordinated by Aimée Lahaussois (HTL / Paris 7).
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| 2013-2014 Lidilem (Research Unit) Correspondent for the Grenoble Cognition Pole.
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| 2010-2013 Participation to the collaboration between the “Trajectory” Project and the
“Topoi” Project (Freie Üniversität & Humboldt Üniversität).
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| 2010-2012 Creation and coordination of the Typology & Description Workshop (Lidilem
Research Unit, University of Grenoble); with Isabelle Rousset.
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| 2005-2013 Member of the “Trajectory” research program (CNRS/TUL). Coordinated by Colette Grinevald (CNRS University of Lyon 2), Jean-Michel Fortis (CNRS – University of Paris 7), Anetta Kopecka (CNRS – University of Lyon 2) and Alice Vitrant (CNRS – University of Provence).
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TEACHING
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| 2017/2018 Classes:
Undergraduate:
Morphology
Writing systems
Morphosyntax
Graduate:
Language Typology |
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OTHER INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES
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| 2010 – Senior Fellowship (2 weeks), TOPOI Project, University Humboldt of Berlin.
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| 2007 - Visiting Scholar (February-March-April) in the Linguistics Department of the University of Oregon, in Eugene. Sponsor: Scott deLancey. |
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| 2006 - Visiting Scholar (April-May-June) in the Linguistics Department of the University of Oregon, in Eugene. Sponsor: Scott deLancey.
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MAIN PUBLICATIONS AND CONFERENCES
LONG VERSION / SHOW SHORT VERSION
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PhDs and master thesis
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Imbert, C., 2008, "Dynamique des systèmes et motivations fonctionnelles dans l’encodage de la Trajectoire. Description typologique du grec homérique et du vieil-anglais", Thèse de Doctorat, Sciences du Langage, Université Lyon 2 (Thèse)
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Imbert, C., 2004, "L’expression de l’espace en turc : une approche fonctionnelle-typologique", Mémoire de DEA, Sciences du Langage, Université Lyon 2, 226 p.
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Imbert, C., 2003, "Expression et métaphorisation de l’efférence dans les langues indo-européennes à satellites. Perspectives diachroniques et typologiques", Mémoire de DEA, Département d'Anglais, Université Paris IV-Sorbonne, 110 p.
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Imbert, C., 2003, "Sémantique générale et sémantique particulière : hypothèse d'un universau efférence/complétude dans les langues du monde. Hypothèses sur l'existence d'un cognème *p en indo-européen", Mini-Mémoire complémentaire de DEA, Département d'Anglais, Université Paris IV-Sorbonne, 8 p.
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Imbert, C., 2002, "Prepositions in English : a comparative analysis of their semantic evolution from Indo-European to contemporary English", Mémoire de Maîtrise, Département d'Anglais, Université Aix-Marseille I, 190 p.
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Edited books
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Imbert, C. & Vallée, N. (eds), 2012, "Typologie et description linguistiques : Interfaces et interactions", 46, Grenoble, Ellug, 196 p. (Volume, Link to Journal)
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Chapters in books
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Imbert, C., soumis, "The Grammaticalization of relator nouns in Turkish. Turkish 'postpositions' revisited", in New Reflections on Grammaticalization 3, Noonan, M. (ed), Typological Studies in Langage, John Benjamins
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Imbert, C. & Vallée, N., 2012, "Pour une description typologique des langues", in Typologie et description linguistiques : Interfaces et interactions, 46, Imbert, C. & Vallée, N. (eds), Lidil, Grenoble, Ellug, pp. 5-21 (Article, Link to Journal)
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Imbert, C., 2008, "Path coding in Old English: functional story of a typological shift", in Historical Englishes in Varieties of Texts and Contexts, Amano, M., Ogura, M. & Ohkado, M. (eds), Frankfurt am Main, Peter Lang, pp. 17-32 (Article (preprint))
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Journals
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Imbert, C., 2013, "Morpheme Order Constraints Upside Down: Verticality and Other Directions.", Berkeley Linguistic Society, 39
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Imbert, C., 2012, "Path: Ways typology has walked through it", Language and Linguistics Compass, 6:4, pp. 236-258 (Article, Link to Journal)
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Imbert, C., Grinevald, C. & Sörés, A., 2011, "Pour une catégorie de « satellite » de trajectoire dans une approche fonctionnelle-typologique", Faits de Langues - Les Cahiers, 3, pp. 99-116 (Article)
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Imbert, C., 2010, "Multiple preverbation in Homeric Greek: A typological insight", Cognitextes, 4 (Article (preprint), Link to Journal)
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Imbert, C. & Vernhes, J.V., 2003, "Le préfixe méconnu ŭ- (<*ud) et son correspondant anglais 'out' ", O LUKHNOS (Université Aix-Marseille I), 2003:2
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Invited presentations
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Imbert, C., 2010, "Parler d'espace : Diversité des langues et Typologie", Séminaire GIPSA-Lab, Axe Parole et Cognition, Grenoble, 30 septembre 2010
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Imbert, C., 2009, "Multiple preverbation in Homeric Greek: What Chibchan Rama has to say", Excellence Cluster TOPOI, Research Area C-I-1, Humboldt-University, Berlin, 23 June 2009
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Conference presentations
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Imbert, C., accepted, "The emergence of relational particles in English", The Society of Historical English Language and Linguistics International Conference (SHELL 2009), Hiroshima, 28-29 August 2009 [CANCELLED]
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Imbert, C., 2015, "Anglais vs. Français : L'envahisseur est-il celui qu'on croit ?", Nuit Européenne des Chercheurs, Vaulx-en-Velin, 25 September 2015
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Imbert, C. & Ducloux, A., 2014, "Et Darwin demanda : C'est quoi une langue ?", Nuit Européenne des Chercheurs, Vaulx-en-Velin, 26 September 2014
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Imbert, C., 2013, "Morpheme order constraints upside down: Vertical Orientation vs. Directionality", 39th Conference of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, Berkeley, 16-17 février 2013
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Imbert, C., 2011, "Elements for a multi-layer definition of 'Satellites'", AFLico IV, Trajectory Workshop, Lyon, 23 mai 2011
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Imbert, C., 2010b, "Competing motivations in Path-coding systems: A case study from an ancient language", Conference on Competing Motivations, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, 23-25 November 2010
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Imbert, C., 2010a, "About satellites, applicatives and adpositions in Path coding: a gradience-of-categories perspective", Syntax of the World's Languages IV (SWL4), Lyon, 23-26 September 2010
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Imbert, C., 2009b, "What adpositions do that satellites cannot. Semantic and conceptual constraints on Path-coding categories", Space in Language Conference, Pisa, 8-10 October 2009
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Imbert, C., 2009a, "Affix-order constraints in Path coding: About satellites, adpositions and the gradience of categories", Association for Linguistic Typology – 8th Biennial Meeting (ALT 8), Berkeley, 23-26 juillet 2009
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Imbert, C., 2008c, "Systems dynamics and functional motivations in Path coding. Typological description of Homeric Greek and Old English. Presentation and discussion of my PhD research results.", Linguistics Colloquium, University of Oregon, Eugene, 7 October 2008
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Imbert, C., 2008b, "Multiple preverbation in Homeric Greek: Affix-order constraints in Path coding", Berkeley Workshop on Affix Ordering, San Francisco, 4 October 2008
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Imbert, C., 2008a, "Path coding in Old English: Source vs. Goal asymmetry in post-verbal particles", International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 2008), Munich, 24-30 August 2008
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Imbert, C. & Grinevald, C., 2008, "Twenty years of relational preverbs: a grammaticalization account", New Reflections on Grammaticalization 4 (NRG4), Leuven, 16-19 July 2008
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Imbert, C. & Grinevald, C., 2008, "Twenty years of relational preverbs: a grammaticalization account", New Reflections on Grammaticalization 4 (NRG4), Leuven, 16-19 Juillet 2008
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Imbert, C., 2007d, "Le puzzle catégoriel des adpositions en grec homérique : La solution typologique", Conférence internationale CRISCO "Autour de la Préposition (position, valeurs, statut et catégories apparentées à travers les langues)", Université de Caen, 20-22 September 2007
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Imbert, C., 2007c, "The puzzle of Path coding in Old English: functional story of a typological shift", The Society of Historical English Language and Linguistics International Conference (SHELL 2007), Nagoya University, Japan, 7-9 September 2007
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Imbert, C., 2007b, "Typology meets ancient languages. Grammaticalization and Path coding in Homeric Greek", Deuxième Colloque International de l'Association Française de Linguistique Cognitive (AFLiCo), Université Lille 3, 10-12 May 2007
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Imbert, C., 2007a, "The puzzle of Path coding and pattern shift in Old English: a functional story", Linguistics Department Colloquium, University of Oregon, Eugene, 13 april 2007
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Imbert, C., 2006, "Ancient languages in a functional-typological perspective: The coding strategy(-ies) of Path in Homeric Greek", Linguistics Department Colloquium, University of Oregon, Eugene, 25 May 2006
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Imbert, C., 2005, "The Grammaticalization of relator nouns in Turkish. Turkish 'postpositions' revisited", New Reflections on Grammaticalization 3 (NRG3), Santiago de Compostela, 17-21 July 2005
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