LACITO
« Languages and Cultures of Oral Tradition »
UMR 7107 – CNRS
Since 1976, LACITO has been exploring the diversity of languages and civilizations with an oral tradition.
This diversity, studied by means of immersion fieldwork within speaker communities, is described and modelled by analyzing the historical, geographical and social factors that shape it.
Events and activities
Pangloss Collection
An open archive of endangered languages
Les carnets du LACITO
Diversity of languages and civilizations
Teaching
Language diversity and historical change – Oceanian languages – Burmese – Introduction to ethnolinguistics – Oceanian languages – Tibeto-Burmese languages – Historical linguistics and Austronesian comparatism – Typology and dialogue: the informational structuring of questions and answers – Typology and diversity of languages
Linguistic and cultural areas
To explore classified languages…
Conferences
Upcoming or past
Conferences and presentations
Since 2004
Exhibitions
“Archive of research dissemination”
Videos
(movies, lectures and talks)
Current Theses
In LACITO.
Theses defended
In LACITO.
40 photos for Lacito’s 40th birthday
15 November – 16 December 2016
40 photos for Lacito’s 40th birthday
On the occasion of the international conference
“From field to theory – 40 years of LACITO”,
we are proud to exhibit a selection of photos by researchers from our laboratory,
showcasing 40 years of its existence.
Recently published
Reference book
Du terrain au cognitif – Linguistique, ethnolinguistique, ethnosciences