Isabelle Bril#
| Membership Number: | 3725 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2014 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | https://lacito.cnrs.fr/annuaire/isabelle-bril/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-4582-9755 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2014 - (from1st January), Director of the French Federation « Typologie et Universaux Linguistiques » (FR 2559)
- 2012 - 2013: Deputy Director of « Typologie et Universaux Linguistiques » (FR 2559)
- 2008 - 2012: Appointed member and secretary of the National Evaluation Committee for Linguistics (section 34)
- 2006 - Senior Researcher at the CNRS (Directrice de Recherche - DR) – ranked first in the selection process for category 2 of DR
- 2001 - 2006: Recruitment as a Researcher (Chargée de Recherche) at the CNRS (CR1) to the LACITO research laboratory: UMR 7107
- 1997 - 2001: Senior Lecturer (Maître de Conférences), Université de Tours (section 11 CNU). Linguistique générale et anglaise
- 1996 - 1997: On detachment to CNRS-LACITO (UPR 3121) as a researcher in the team « Etudes océaniennes »
- 1995 - 1996: English teacher at secondary level and for the post-secondary preparatory school for entrance to the Grandes Ecoles
- 1993-1995: On detachment to CNRS-LACITO (UPR 3121) as a researcher (CR1) in the team « Etudes océaniennes »
- 1978-93: English teacher at secondary level (professeur agrégé d'anglais) (and in "classes préparatoires aux Grandes Ecoles" from 1989 to 1992)
Fields of Scholarship
- Coordination and subordination
- Morphosyntax
- Complex predicates
- Languages of New Caledonia (Nêlêmwa, Zuanga), Formosan languages (Amis)
- Diachrony
- Reciprocals and middles
- Typology of Austronesian languages
- Valency alignments
- Number and number marking
- Possession
Honours and Awards
- 2011: Joint director of Axis 3 of the Labex project 'Langues austronésiennes: reconstruction et syntaxe) with Laurent Sagart
- 2008-2012: Appointed member and secretary of the National Evaluation Committee for Linguistics (section 34)
- 2006: Ranked first in the highly competitive CNRS selection process for Senior Researchers (Directeur de Recherche, category 2)
