Research topics
- I work on the documentation and description of languages with an oral tradition. My area of
expertise is New Guinea and the Papuan languages. I am especially interested in Angaataha,
a language of the Anga family for which neither a grammar nor a dictionary has yet been
published. - My thematic speciality is nominal categorisation through gender systems. Gender is a
predominant category in Angaataha grammar. I study gender both in its grammatical functioning
and also in its social and cognitive implications.
Research programs
LACITO:
- Terrains, Analyses, et Comparaison des Langues (co-org. with Lameen Souag, since 2018)
- Jeux de langage
Labex Empirical Foundations of Linguistics:
Keywords
genre – catégorisation nominale – documentation – description – linguistique de terrain – linguistique historique – langues anga – langues papoues angaataha – hamtai – menya – susuami – tok pisin
Education
- 2017: MA in Indo-European Linguistics and Typology (summa cum laude), École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris (sup. Georges-Jean Pinault)
Teaching
- Oct-Dec 2018: « Methodology in human sciences », INALCO (60 hours)
Talks
- « The semantics of gender assignment in Angaataha », Current Trends in Papuan Linguistics II, Paris, 15 February 2023
Administration
- 2019: Representative for the PhD students at LACITO
Conference organisation
- Descriptive Grammars and Typology II, Paris, 1-3 December 2021 (organising commitee with
Neige Rochant, Sebastian Fedden, Guillaume Segerer and Jeanne Rochant) - Current Trends in Papuan Linguistics II, Paris, 15-17 February 2023 (organising commitee with
Sonja Riesberg, Sylvain Loiseau and Moisés Velasquez)
Mobility abroad
- Exchange at Universiteit Leiden, Leiden (Netherlands), Sept 2016 – Dec 2016
- Exchange at James Cook University, Cairns (Australia), Feb 2020 – May 2020
- Fieldworks with the Angaatiya (Papua New Guinea)
– Dec 2019 – Feb 2020
– Jan 2022 – July 2022