Alexandre François#
| Membership Number: | 5345 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2020 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | http://alex.francois.online.fr |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-1947-0806 |
Present and Previous Positions
- In Paris, France:
- 2018 - (present) Directeur de recherche
(Senior research fellow), Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) École Normale Supérieure - Université Paris Sorbonne nouvelle - dept. Lattice
- 2015 - 2018 Directeur de recherche (Senior research fellow), LaCiTO-CNRS
- 2015 - 2018 Directeur de laboratoire (Head of Department), LaCiTO-CNRS
- 2002 - 2015 Chargé de recherche (Research fellow), LaCiTO-CNRS
- 1999 - 2002 Doctoral teaching assistant, Université Paris 3 Sorbonne nouvelle
- 2018 - (present) Directeur de recherche
- In Canberra, Australia:
- 2016 - present Honorary Associate Professor: Linguistics, School of Culture, History & Language, Australian National University (ANU) (Canberra)
- 2012 - 2016 Research Associate, School of Culture, History & Language, Australian National University
- 2009 - 2012 Visiting fellow, School of Culture, History & Language, Australian National University
- 2016 - present Honorary Associate Professor
Fields of Scholarship
- Historical and comparative linguistics
- Language divergence and convergence
- Description and comparison of Pacific languages
- Areal linguistics and dialectology
- Oral literature
- Semantic change
- Grammatical typology
- Lexical typology
- Language documentation
- Preservation of endangered languages
Honours and Awards
- 2020 elected Member of Academia Europeae, Linguistic studies
- 2004 Bronze medal of the CNRS, Linguistics section
- 1995 Agrégation de Grammaire (national rank #1)
- 1992 École Normale Supérieure Ulm (national rank #4), Classics section
