Marie-Caroline-Pons

Marie-Caroline PONS

मेरि–कारोलिन् पोँस्

Doctor in Linguistics

Detailed CV (October 2023) – ORCID: 0000-0001-8850-5510

 

Research topics

Documentation and descriptions of Trans-Himalayan languages (Tibeto-Burman, Sino-Tibetan) spoken in Nepal in collaboration with community members: Himalayan languages (Magar, Chepang, Bhujel, Khamci, Bhoto) – Linguistic typology – Historical linguistics and phylogeny – Verbal systems of Himalayan and Trans-Himalayan languages in a synchronic, comparative, and diachronic perspective

 

Research projects

Research operations at LACITO: Languages of the Tibeto-Burman area

2023-24: Trilingual digital dictionary of Chepang (Nepali-English) – 4 varieties spoken in the districts of Makawanpur and Chitwan: Lothar, Manahari, Kayar et Rapti – in progress, and soon online and open access on Living Dictionaries of the Living Tongue Institute and in the Pangloss archive – National Science Foundation (NSF): Documenting Endangered Languages (DEL) (2019-22), Endangered Language Fund (ELF) (2023-24)

2017- : Digital corpus of Chepang – 40+ hours of recordings (audio and video) transcribed in IPA and translated in Nepali and/or English – 4 varieties spoken in the districts of Makawanpur and Chitwan: Lothar, Manahari, Kayar et Rapti – in progress – National Science Foundation (NSF): Documenting Endangered Languages (DEL) (2019-22), Grant in-aid for Scientific Research (2023-25)

 

Keywords

linguistics – description – documentation – linguistic typology – historical linguistic – phylogeny – Trans-Himalayan languages – Tibeto-Burman languages – Himalayan languages – Magar – Chepang – Bhujel – Khamci – Bhoto – morphosyntax – verbal system

 

Teaching

2014-21 – Linguistics Department, University of Oregon

Functional Syntax I (LING 451/551)
Functional Syntax II (LING 452/552)
Analytical Methods in Morphology and Syntax (LING 435/535)
Introduction to Linguistic Analysis (LING 301)
Languages of the World (LING 211)
Introduction to Language (LING 101)
Structure of English Words (LING 150)

 

University training

  • Doctoral dissertation, University of Oregon
    2022 – The Chepang language: Phonology, nominal and verbal morphology – synchrony and diachrony of the varieties of the Lothar and Manahari Rivers (here)
    Committee : Scott DeLancey (directeur), Spike Gildea, Doris Payne, Jing Zhuo-Schmidt 
  • Master thesis University Paris IV Sorbonne
    2013 – Description of the Magar language spoken in Syangja, a Tibeto-Burman Language of Nepal. Phonology, morphology, and syntax
    Committee: Alain Lemaréchal (chair), Martine Mazaudon, François Jacquesson

Publications

in revision – On the distribution and discourse functions of =taŋ in Chepang, Linguistics

to appear – State of the art on the phylogeny of West-Himalayan/Himalayish, Himalayan, Central-Himalayan, Magaric, Raji-Raute and Eastern Kiranti. In Hildebrandt & Suzuki eds. The Oxford Guide to Tibeto-Burman Languages. Oxford University Press.

2021 – On the origin of 2nd person prefix #tV- in Trans-Himalayan languages. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 44:2, 226–263. https://doi.org/10.1075/ltba.20004.pon

2014 – Valence and voice strategies in Magar. Nepalese Linguistics 29, 101–108.

 

Communications

2022 – 1st and 2nd person (SAP) interactions in Chepang. Paper presented at Person Marking in Tibeto-Burman Workshop. University of Cologne, Germany.

2022 – Chepang’s direct-inverse system in need of historical, epistemic, and pragmatic explanations. Paper presented at Societas Linguistica Europaea. SLE 55. Bucharest, Romania.

2021 – Phonology of Chepang – diphthongs and variation on the glottal stop. Presented at Language Documentation and Revitalization. LDR. University of Oregon.

2020 – The Chepang Language Documentation and Description Project. Presented at Nepal Chepang Sangh. Rapti Municipality, Chitwan, Nepal.

2019 – On the origin of 2nd person prefix #tV- in Trans-Himalayan languages. Paper presented at Association for Linguistic Typology. ALT 13. Pavia, Italy.

2019 – On the distribution and discourse functions of =taŋ in Chepang. Paper presented at Societas Linguistica Europaea. SLE 52. Leipzig, Germany.

2019 – The Chepang Language Documentation and Description Project – Towards Community-Based Research (CBR). Poster presented at International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation. ICLDC 6. University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, Hawai’i, USA.

2018 – On the origin of 2nd person prefix #tV- in Trans-Himalayan languages. Presented at Language Documentation and Revitalization. LDR. University of Oregon.

2017 – Morphological evidence for Kali-Karnali (aka “Raji-Raute”) and genetic position within Trans-Himalayan. Invited talk. Paper presented at the University of Bern, Switzerland.

2017 – Morphological evidence for Kali-Karnali (aka “Raji-Raute”) and genetic position within Trans-Himalayan. Paper presented at Linguistic Society of Nepal. LSN 38. Kirtipur, Nepal.

2016 – Breathiness spreading in Magar. Poster presented at Societas Linguistica Europaea. SLE 49. Naples, Italy.

2016 – Breathiness spreading in Magar. Poster presented at Northwest Phon{etics;ology}. NoWPhon 2. University of Oregon.

Network and website

Academia (ici)
Research Gate (ici)
LinkedIn (ici)

The Chepang Language Documentation and Description Project (ici)

 

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