Stéphane Robert#
Membership Number: | 4667 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
Elected: | 2018 |
Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
Homepage(s): | http://llacan.vjf.cnrs.fr/p_robert.php |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2009 - currently Director of reseach 1st class, CNRS lab “Language, languages and cultures of Subsaharian Africa” (LLACAN)
- 2002 - 2013 Chair of the French national Consortium "Typology and linguistic universals"
- 1998 - 2008 Director of research 2d class, CNRS lab LLACAN
- 1999 - 2002 Director of the CNRS Research Group (GDR) "Langague's diversity and evolution: cognitive implications"
- 1997 Jan-May Visiting scholar at UC-Berkeley, Linguistic Department - NATO Fellowship
- 1992 - 1998 Researcher 1st class, CNRS lab LLACAN
- 1990 - 1991 Assistant-professor at Tamkang University (Taïwan), French Department
- 1985 - 1988 PhD salaried student of the Fondation Thiers (Institut de France), seconded to the CNRS linguistic Lab (U. Paris 7)
- 1980 - 1985 Member (salaried student-state employee) of the Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris)
Fields of Scholarship
- African linguistics, especially Atlantic languages
- Information structure and its interfaces
- General semantics
- Grammaticalization and morphosyntactic categories
- Cognitive linguistics, and cognitive implications of the various linguistic models
- Typology
- Language in cognitive sciences
- Corpus annotation and databases for poorly documented languages
- Theoretical linguistics
- TAM (tense, aspect and modality) and spatial deixis
Honours and Awards
- 2013 Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur
- 2012 Elected Corresponding Member of the Royal Academy of Belgium for Overseas Sciences (Section of Human Sciences)
- 1994 CNRS Bronze medal for linguistics