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Alexandre François is a French linguist specialising in the description and study of the indigenous languages of Melanesia . He belongs to Lattice CNRS and École Normale Supérieure
Research
Language description and documentation
François has done linguistic fieldwork in Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands .
In 2002, he published a grammatical description of Araki , a language spoken by a handful of speakers on an islet south of Espiritu Santo (Vanuatu).
Most of his research focuses on the northern islands of Vanuatu , known as the Torres and Banks Islands , an area where sixteen out of seventeen languages are still spoken: Hiw , Lo-Toga , Lehali , Löyöp , Mwotlap , Volow (extinct), Lemerig , Vera'a , Vurës , Mwesen , Mota , Nume , Dorig , Koro , Olrat , Lakon , Mwerlap - all descended from the Proto-Torres–Banks language , which was also reconstructed by him. After describing Mwotlap , the language with most speakers in that area, he has published articles comparing the languages of the area more generally – both from a synchronic and historical perspectives. He has described the sociolinguistic profile of this area as one of "egalitarian multilingualism ".
In 2005, François took part in a scientific expedition to Vanikoro (Solomon Islands ), whose objective was to understand the wreckage of the French navigator La Pérouse in 1788. As a member of a multidisciplinary team, he recorded the oral tradition of the Melanesian and Polynesian populations of this island, concerning popular representations of this historical event.[5] three languages spoken on Vanikoro – Teanu , Lovono and Tanema – two of which are highly endangered .[6]
In 2015, he coauthored with Jean-Michel Charpentier the Linguistic Atlas of French Polynesia , an atlas showcasing the internal linguistic diversity of French Polynesia .
In 2020, he was elected a member of the Academia Europaea .[9]
Documentation of languages and cultures in Melanesia
François recorded texts from the oral literature – myths, legends, folktales – in various language communities of Vanuatu and the Solomons.
He provided local communities with various books in their languages, in the perspective of promoting the use of vernacular languages in writing.[10]
Together with ethnomusicologist Monika Stern and anthropologist Éric Wittersheim, he ran a multidisciplinary project on traditional music and poetry in Vanuatu.[11] Music of Vanuatu: Celebrations and Mysteries , a CD album of songs and dances recorded during social events in the field.
Contribution to linguistic typology and theory
François coined the term "colexification ".[13] increasingly used in research about lexical typology .
Together with Siva Kalyan (ANU), he also developed Historical glottometry , a non-cladistic approach to language genealogy , inspired by the Wave model .[14]
References
Notes
^ Bremner, Charles (13 May 2005), "Sea hero's fate revealed after 217 years" , The Times
^ Traufetter, Gerald (15 June 2012), Climate Change or Tectonic Shifts? The Mystery of the Sinking South Pacific Islands. Part 2: A Language's Lone Survivor
^ "Alexandre François" . Academia Europaea . Retrieved 2020-10-08 .
^ "Building up vernacular literacy" with free access to literacy materials.
^ The Poet's Salary Éric Wittersheim , about François' and Stern's fieldwork in northern Vanuatu.
^ François (2008) .
^ François (2014) , Kalyan & François (2018) .
Sources
François, Alexandre (2002). Araki: A disappearing language of Vanuatu ISBN 0-85883-493-6
François, Alexandre (2003), La sémantique du prédicat en mwotlap (Vanuatu) ISBN 978-90-429-1271-7
François, Alexandre (2009), "The languages of Vanikoro: Three lexicons and one grammar" , in Evans, Bethwyn (ed.), Discovering history through language: Papers in honour of Malcolm Ross , Pacific Linguistics 605, Canberra: Australian National University, pp. 103–126
François, Alexandre (2008), "Semantic maps and the typology of colexification: Intertwining polysemous networks across languages" , in Vanhove, Martine (ed.), From Polysemy to Semantic change: Towards a Typology of Lexical Semantic Associations , Studies in Language Companion Series, vol. 106, Amsterdam, New York: Benjamins, pp. 163–215, CiteSeerX 10.1.1.395.5070 doi :10.1075/slcs.106.09fra
François, Alexandre (2012), "The dynamics of linguistic diversity: Egalitarian multilingualism and power imbalance among northern Vanuatu languages" , International Journal of the Sociology of Language , 2012 (214): 85–110, doi :10.1515/ijsl-2012-0022 , S2CID 145208588
François, Alexandre (2014), "Trees, Waves and Linkages: Models of Language Diversification" , in Bowern, Claire; Evans, Bethwyn (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics , London: Routledge, pp. 161–189, ISBN 978-0-41552-789-7
François, Alexandre; Stern, Monika (2013), Musiques du Vanuatu: Fêtes et Mystères – Music of Vanuatu: Celebrations and Mysteries
Kalyan, Siva; François, Alexandre (2018), "Freeing the Comparative Method from the tree model: A framework for Historical Glottometry" , in Kikusawa, Ritsuko; Reid, Laurie (eds.), Let's talk about trees: Tackling Problems in Representing Phylogenic Relationships among Languages , Senri Ethnological Studies, 98, Ōsaka: National Museum of Ethnology, pp. 59–89
François, Alexandre (2024), Online Mwotlap–English–French dictionary {{citation }}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link )
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