Jean ROHLEDER

PostDoc Mobility 2024-2025 (grant of Swiss National Science Foundation)

PhD in General Linguistics

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Research interests

Language documentation, descriptive linguistics, syntactic typology, anthropological linguistics, (pre-)colonial history of the Pacific.

Research experience

2024 – 2026 : Sketch grammars of Nemi and Paicî and alignment typology of the North of New Caledonia

Oct. 2022 – Déc. 2023 : Alignment in Paicî

Fév. 2017 – 2021 : Documentation and description of Vamale, an endangered language of New Caledonia, archived on ELAR.

Scholarships

Jan. 2024 – Déc. 2025: SNSF grant P500PH 217641 PostDoc Mobility

2017 – 2020: IGS grant 0321 (ELDP)

Education

Fév. 2017 – Sept. 2021 : Universität Bern, PhD in General Linguistics, Mentors: Professors Fernando Zúñiga, Isabelle Bril (CNRS, France), insigni cum laude
Sept. 2015 – Sept. 2016 : SOAS, University of London, MA in Language Documentation and Description, Mentors: Professors Julia Sallabank, Peter Austin. Distinction
Sept. 2014 – Sept. 2015 : Universität Bern, MA in Lingistics, minor in Sociolinguistics, all ECTS except thesis, went to London
Sept. 2011 – Fév. 2015 : BA in Linguistics, minor in French Erasmus semester in Stockholm, insigni cum laude

Work esperience

Oct. 202 – Déc. 2023 : Department of Linguistics, Université de Berne, Associate Researcher
Nov. 2021 – Juil 2023 : Department of Linguistics, Université de Berne, Secretary
Août. 2021 – Fév. 2023 : Department of Linguistics, Université de Berne, Lecturer
Fév. 2017 – Fév. 2021 : Department of Linguistics, Université de Berne, Assistant

Publications

Under review, Alignment in Vamale

Language Science Press, in press, A Grammar of Vamale

Talks and tutorials

Dec 2023 : Restocking the Shelves , Presentation at ESHP, Edinbourgh

Aug 2023 : Alignment systems in New Caledonia, Presentation at APLL, Olomouc, with Alexander ELIAS

Aug 2023 : Restocking the Shelves, Presentation at APLL, Olomouc

Aug 2023 : Alignment in Vamale, Presentation at SLE, Athènes

Mar 2023 : Contacts linguistiques le long du Pamalé – Changement linguistique et plurilinguisme dans le Pacifique Sud, Poster à la Journée de la Recherche, Universität Bern

Apr 2021 : Tiike i Vamale – Documentation et description linguistique dans le Pacifique Sud, Présentation à la Journée de la Recherche, Universität Bern