Alain Peyraube#
| Email: | peyraube 'at' ehess.fr |
| Membership Number: | 2404 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Username: | apeyraube |
Present and Previous Positions
- Chair Professor of Chinese Linguistics at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)
- 2001-Directeur de Recherche at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS, Paris, France)
- 1997- 2001- Deputy Director of the "Division of Humanities and Social Sciences" of the CNRS
- 1984- 1998- Director of the Institute of East Asian Linguistics (CNRS and EHESS)
- 1984-Doctorat d’Etat from Paris 7 University
- 1976- Ph.D. from Paris 8 University
Fields of Scholarship
- Chinese diachronic syntax and semantics
- Typology of East-Asian languages
- Cognitive approaches to the diversity of languages
- The origin and evolution of languages
Honours and Awards
- Member of Academia Europaea (2006)
- Corresponding member of the Academia Sinica of Taiwan (2002)
- The French Academy Stanislas Julie Prize (1988)






