Mena B. Lafkioui#
| Membership Number: | 5192 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | http://menablafkioui.wordpress.com |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-1016-4071 |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/Mena.B.Lafkioui |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/mena-b-lafkioui-22088751/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2018 - present Full Professor (Directeur d’études), Chair Berber linguistics, Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, Institut Marcel Mauss (UMR 8178), which became CNRS-LIER-FYT (FRE2024) as from 2019, Paris
- 2014 - present Research Director (Directeur de recherche), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) – CNRS-LLACAN-UMR-8135 (till 2018) and CNRS-LIER-FYT-FRE2024 (as from 2019), Paris
- 2008 - 2014 Senior Research Professor in African Languages and Literatures, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Department of Human Sciences for the Formation “Riccardo Massa”
- 2005 - 2008 Research Professor in African Languages and Literatures, Università della Calabria, Department of Linguistics
- 2005 - 2014 FWO-fellow, Ghent University, Department of African Languages and Cultures
- 2001 - 2004 Postdoctoral researcher (NWO), Leiden University, Department of Languages and Cultures of the Middle East
- 1999 - 2000 Postdoctoral researcher (BOF), Ghent University, Department of Oriental Languages and Cultures
- 1998 - 1999 Postdoctoral researcher (ATER), I.N.A.L.C.O. (Paris), Department of African Languages and Cultures.
- 1995 - 1998 French National Ph.D. Monitor in Human and Social Sciences, I.N.A.L.C.O. (Paris), Department of African Languages and Cultures
- 1995 - 1998 Ph.D. researcher, I.N.A.L.C.O. (Paris), Department of African Languages and Cultures
Fields of Scholarship
- Information Structure and its prosody-morphosyntax interface
- Berber linguistics, geolinguistics, and sociolinguistics
- Afroasiatic linguistics
- Arabic dialectology, African Arabic
- Negation: typology and evolution
Honours and Awards
- 2014 Elected as Academician, Accademia Ambrosiana, Milan
- 2014 Elected as founding member of the “Classe Africa” of the Accademia Ambrosiana, Milan
- 2014 Elected as founding member of the “Section Berbero” of the Accademia Ambrosiana, Milan
