All Members

Documentation and description of under-described Amazonian languages

Phonology

Morphosyntax

Typology

Comparative, areal and diachronic lingusitics

Co-organizer of the Morphosyntax Workshop, Lyon (2008-2022), with A. Guillaume and M. Duzerol

Co-organizer with Anita Obenaus of the workshop Clara (Classifiers in Arawak languages), Lyon, September 9th 2024

Co-organizer with Brigitte Pakendorf of the workshop Fillers and placeholders at the 14th meeting of the association for Linguistic Typology, Austin, December 15-17 2022.

Co-organizer with Adam Tallman, Magdalena Lemus Serrano, and Minella Duzerol of the workshop Constituency, wordhood, and the morphology-syntax distinction: description and typologys online, April 2021

Co-organizer with Thiago Chacon, Rosa Vallejos, Magdalena Lemus Serrano, Denis Bertet, Léa Mouton of the workshop Noun categorization: from grammar to communicative interaction Lyon, April 18-19 2019

Co-organizer with Frank Seifart of the symposium Arawakan linguistic and cultural identities of the 54th International Congress of Americanists (ICA), Vienna, Austria, 15-20 July 2012

Co-organizer with Denis Creissels and Antoine Guillaume of the International Congress Syntax of the World's Languages 4, Lyon, 23-26 September 2010

Co-organizer with Lev Michael and Frank Seifart of the symposium Lenguas arawak: estrategias de aumento de valencia at the Internationsl Congress Amazónicas III: Fonología y sintaxis, National University of Colombia, Bogotá, 19-24 April 2010

Co-organizer with A. Guillaume of the International Workshop on Argument coding systems in Bolivian Lowland Languages, Villejuif, 5-7 April 2007

4 décembre 2017. Intervention Description de langues amazoniennes, dans le cadre du cours Morphosyntaxe et typologie, L3 de Sciences Du Langage, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble (2h).

17 mars 2017. Intervention Genderlects in the World Languages, dans le cadre du cours Languages of the world (Prof. E. Pederson), Linguistics Department, University of Oregon, Eugene (1h).

6 September - 10 September 2016: Typology of Amazonian languages. European Summer Schhol in Linguistics Typology, Porquerolles.

12-14 July 2010: Workshop Mojeño Linguistics (15h), Workshop in linguistics for indigenous teachers of lowland Bolivia (in Trinidad), Autonomous University Gabriel René Moreno de Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia.

29 June-2 July 2009: Class Amazonian languages. 3L International Summer School on Language Documentation and Description, School of Oriental and African Studies, London

22 and 24 July 2008 : Workshop on Mojeño Linguistics, Workshop in linguistics for indigenous teachers of lowland Bolivia (in San Borja), Autonomous University Gabriel René Moreno de Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia

PhD theses

• Antonio Castillo Ramirez (2024-...) Temporal reference and aspect in Yanesha, co-direction with Albert Alvarez (co-tutelle University of Sonora at Hermosillo).
• Anita Obenaus (2022-...) A diachronic and synchronic perspective on the system of nominal classification in Mojeño (South-Arawak), co-direction with Jost Gippert and Gerd Carling (Goethe University Frankfurt).
• Minella Duzerol (2018-...) Sociogrammaire du martiniquais, Université Lyon2.
• Magdalena Lemus Serrano (2016-2020) Pervasive nominalization in Yukuna, an Arawak language of Colombian Amazonia, Université Lyon2.
• Jorge Rosés Labrada (2013-2015) The Mako language:Vitality, Grammar and Classification, Co-tutelle Université Lyon2 and Université de Western Ontario (codir. David Heap).
• Noé Gasparini (2012-2019) Grammaire du siriono: obsolescence d'une langue tupi-guarani en Boliviee, Université Lyon2. Thesis abandoned.
• Pierric Sans (2010-2014) Grammaire du besɨro, Université Lyon2. Thesis abandoned.

Master thesis:

• Esteban Defurne (2021-): Étude de la variation phonétique des occlusives glottales et des paramètres de cette variation en mojeño trinitario dans une perspective descriptive instrumentale. Université Lyon 2, Master 2.
• Oscar Cocaud-Degrève (2018-2021): La négation en guarani bolivien. Université Lyon 2, Master 2.
• Mao-Line Fillon (2018-2020): Les idéophones du teko (famille Tupi-Guarani, Guyane). Descriptions syllabiques et prosodiques. Université Lyon 2, Master 2.
• Antonio Castillo Ramirez (2018-2020) : Irrealis en nomatsigenga. Universidad de Sonora, Hermosillo, Maestria, co-direction Albert Alvarez Gonzalez and Françoise Rose.
• Minella Duzerol (2017-2018): Étude de la proposition subordonnée relative en martiniquais dans une perspective typologique-fonctionnelle. Université Lyon 2, Master 2, co-direction Anna Söres and Françoise Rose.
• Windy Daviet (2015-2016): Observations sociolinguistiques et analyse de la phonologie du dialecte ava du guaraní bolivien. Langue tupi-guaraní de Bolivie. Université Lyon 2, Master 2.
• Magdalena Lemus Serrano (2015-2016): Observations sociolinguistiques et description phonologique du yukuna, langue de l’Amazonie colombienne. Université Lyon 2, Master 2.
• Magdalena Lemus Serrano (2014-2015): La possession nominale en yucuna, une langue de l’Amazonie colombienne. INALCO, Master 1, co-direction Anton Antonov and Françoise Rose.
• Windy Daviet (2014-2015): Analyse de la possession nominale en guaraní bolivien, une langue tupi-guaraní. Université Lyon 2, Master 1.
• Paola Granado Columba (2014-2015) : Etude de la possession nominale en mojeño ancien pendant la période jésuite. Université Lyon2, Master 1. Master abandoned.
• Noé Gasparini (2011-2012): Observations sociolinguistiques et esquisse de la phonologie du siriono. Université Lyon 2, Master 2.
• Noé Gasparini (2010-2011): L'expression du nombre dans les langues tupi-guarani. Université Lyon 2, Master 1.
• Alexandre Raymond (2009-2010): Particularités phonétiques, Graphie traditionnelle, Formes et usages des pronoms personnels en arpitan (francoprovençal) des Monts du Lyonnais. Université Lyon 2, Master 1, co-direction Michel Bert and Françoise Rose.

August 2016 - June 2017: International Scholar at the University of Oregon, Eugene

August 2013: Student of the Historical Sociolinguistics Summer School, Lesbos (Greece).

June-July 2009: Teacher at the 3L International Summer School on Language Documentation and Description, School of Oriental and African Studies, London.

January-March 2007: Visiting Scholar at the Research Center for Lingusitic Typology (RCLT), Latrobe University, Melbourne, Australia.

Winter 2003: exchange student at the Department of Linguistics of the University of Californie at Santa Barbara, United-States, EURODOC grant.

February 2002: visitor at the Laboratorio de Linguas Indigenas, University of Brasilia, Brazil (Dir. Aryon Rodrigues), Aires Culturelles grant

member of the following organizations: Grupo de Trabalho as Linguas Indigenas, Linguistic Society of America, Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of America, Association for Linguistic Typology, Historical Sociolinguistics, Société de Linguistique de Paris

Summer 2001: Student at the Linguistic Institute du LSA