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Formation et parcours professionnel
Thèmes de recherche
Responsabilité de projets
Distinctions ou Financements
Participation à projets
Enseignements
Principales publications et conférences
FORMATION ET PARCOURS PROFESSIONNEL
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| 2007-2014: PhD in Environmental Science - University of California, Berkeley
Dissertation title: From Spiders to Languages: a phylogenetic journey. |
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| 2000-2005: Bachelor's Degree in Biology - National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Thesis title: The Flora of Kastos Island, Ionian Sea, Greece |
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THÈMES DE RECHERCHE
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| Comparative and historical linguistics |
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| Application of phylogenetic methods in historical linguistics. Development of coding methods for lexical, phonological and morphosyntactic data. |
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| Integration of historical linguistics with archaeological, ethnographic and genetic data. |
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| Language families-subgroups: Tupí-Guaraní, Cariban. |
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RESPONSABILITÉ DE PROJETS
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| Migration of the Tupí-Guaraní comparative lexical database on the RefLex platform. - in collaboration with Sebastien Flavier (DDL) |
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DISTINCTIONS OU FINANCEMENTS
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| 2007- 2010: Scholarship for PhD studies in biological sciences from the Greek National Scholarships Foundation. |
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| 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2012: Walker Fund, Essig Museum of Entomology, University of California, Berkeley. |
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| 2009: Harvey J. Magy Scholarship in Entomology, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley. |
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| 2010: Robert L. Usinger Scholarship in Entomology, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley. |
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| 2014-present: LabEx ASLAN postdoctoral fellowship. |
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PARTICIPATION À PROJETS
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| Internal Classification of West Coastal Bantu using phylogenetic methods - in collaboration with Koen Bostoen and Sara Pacchiarotti (Ghent University, Belgium)
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| Evolution of genderlects in the Tupí family. - in collaboration with Françoise Rose (DDL). |
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| Internal Classification of the Cariban languages using phylogenetic methods. - in collaboration with Sérgio Meira and Joshua Birchall (Museu Parense Goeldi) |
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ENSEIGNEMENTS
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| 2015: Course on phylogenetic methods as applied to historical linguistics covering distance methods, parsimony, maximum likelihood and Bayesian Inference (designed and taught). |
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PRINCIPALES PUBLICATIONS ET CONFÉRENCES
VERSION LONGUE / AFFICHER LA VERSION COURTE
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Thèses et mémoires
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Chousou-Polydouri, N., 2014, "From Spiders to Languages: a Phylogenetic Journey", PhD Thesis, Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley |
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Articles de revues
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Michael, L. & Chousou-Polydouri, N., 2020, "Computational Phylogenetics and the Classification of South American Languages", Language and Linguistics Compass, 13:12 (DOI)
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Chousou-Polydouri, N., Carmichael, A., Szűts, T., Saucedo, A., Griswold, C. & Wood, H., 2019, "Giant Goblins above the waves at the southern end of the world: The biogeography of the spider family Orsolobidae (Araneae, Dysderoidea).", Journal of Biogeography, 46:2, pp. 332-342 |
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Pacchiarotti, S., Chousou-Polydouri, N. & Bostoen, K., 2019, "Untangling the West-Coastal Bantu Mess: Identification, Geography and Phylogeny of the Bantu B50-80 Languages", Africana Linguistica, 25 (DOI)
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Michael, L., Chousou-Polydouri, N., Bartolomei, K., Donnelly, E., Wauters, V., Meira, S. & O'Hagan, Z., 2015, "A Bayesian Phylogenetic Classification of Tupí-Guaraní.", Liames, 15:2, pp. 193-221 (pdf)
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Communications avec actes édités
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Chousou-Polydouri, N., Birchall, J., Meira, S., O’Hagan, Z. & Michael, L., 2016, "A test of coding procedures for lexical data with Tupí-Guaraní and Chapacuran languages", proc. of Capturing Phylogenetic Algorithms for Linguistics, Leiden, 26-30 October 2015, Bentz, C., Jäger, G. & Yanovich, I. (eds), University of Tübingen, online publication system, Proceedings of the Leiden Workshop on Capturing Phylogenetic Algorithms for Linguistics (abstract) (pdf)
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Chousou-Polydouri, N., Carmichael, A., Szűts, T., Saucedo, A., Gillespie, R. & Griswold, C., 2013, "Giant goblins on a sunken island? Biogeography of the spider family Orsolobidae
"6th Biennial Meeting of the International Biogeography Society, Miami, Florida, USA, 9-13 January 2013 |
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Chousou-Polydouri, N. & Yannitsaros, A., 2005, "The flora of Kastos Island (Ionian Sea, Greece) "Proceedings of the 10th Scientific Congress of the Hellenic Botanical Society, Ioannina, Greece, 5-8 May |
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Communications
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Chousou-Polydouri, N., van Dam, K., Inman, D., Vuillermet, M., Easterday, S., Rose, F. & Bickel, B., 2021, "Mapping linguistic areas: a preliminary case study in South America", SALSA, University of Virginia, 29 juin 2021 |
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Chousou-Polydouri, N., Inman, D., Vuillermet, M., van Dam, K., Easterday, S. & Rose, F., 2021, "Is there a typological profile of isolates ?", SLE, online, 1er septembre 2021 |
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Chousou-Polydouri, N., 2018, "Phylogeny and Spread of Amazonian languages: What phylogenetic methods can(not) tell us.", Comparative mythology, population genetics, linguistic phylogenetics, and cognitive patterns: Studies in the new science of cultural diffusion., Paris, December 12-13 |
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Rose, F. & Chousou-Polydouri, N., 2017, "A comparative study of genderlects in the Tupi family", SSILA Annual Meeting, Austin, 6 janvier 2017 (slides)
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Chousou-Polydouri, N., Birchall, J. & Meira, S., 2017, "A character-based internal classification of the Cariban language family.", The Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, Annual meeting, Austin, January 5-8 |
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Chousou-Polydouri, N., Gasparini, N., Michael, L., O'Hagan, Z. & Rose, F., 2016, "Reconstructing Negation Morphemes and Constructions in the Tupí-Guaraní Family", Amazonicas VI, Leticia, Colombie, 24/04/2016 |
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Michael, L., Chousou-Polydouri, N., O'Hagan, Z., Bartolomei, K., Sellis, D., Clem, E. & Donnelly, E., 2015, "A Bayesian Phylogenetic Classification of the Tupí-Guaraní Family", Linguistic Society of America, Annual Meeting, Portland, USA, January 10 |
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Gasparini, N., Danielsen, S., Chousou-Polydouri, N., O'Hagan, Z., Bartolomei, K. & Michael, L., 2015, "Southern Tupí-Guaraní Languages: Combining classification with areal linguistics", The 18th Annual Workshop on American Indigenous Languages, Santa Barbara, 18 mai 2015 (diapos)
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Chousou-Polydouri, N., Michael, L., O'Hagan, Z., Gasparini, N. & Rose, F., 2015, "Phylogenetic Analysis of Morphosyntactic Data. A case study of Negation in Tupí-Guaraní", Societas Linguistica Europeae, Leiden, 8 October 2015 (HAL)
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Chousou-Polydouri, N., Birchall, J., Meira, S. & O’Hagan, Z., 2015, " A test of coding procedures with Tupi-Guaranian and Chapacuran languages.", Capturing Phylogenetic Algorithms for Linguistics Workshop, Leiden, October 26-30 |
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Meira, S., Birchall, J. & Chousou-Polydouri, N., 2015, "A character-based internal classification of the Cariban language family.", Societas Linguistica Europaea 2015, 48th Annual Meeting, Leiden University, the Netherlands, 4 September |
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Chousou-Polydouri, N., O'Hagan, Z., Bartolomei, K., Donnelly, E. & Michael, L., 2014, "An Internal Classification of Tupí-Guaraní Using Computational Phylogenetic Methods", AMAZONICAS V, Belém, Brazil, May 28 |
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O'Hagan, Z., Chousou-Polydouri, N., Bartolomei, K., Donnelly, E. & Michael, L., 2014, "The Geographical Spread of the Tupí-Guaraní Family: Evidence from Computational Phylogenetics.", AMAZONICAS V, Belém, Brazil, May 28 |
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Chousou-Polydouri, N., Wauters, V., O'Hagan, Z., Bartolomei, K. & Μichael, L., 2013, "A phylogenetic approach to the study of the Tupí-Guaraní language family. ", 16th annual Workshop on American Indigenous Languages, Santa Barbara, California, USA, 26-27 April 2013 |
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