Guillaume Jacques - Biography#

Guillaume Jacques studied linguistics at the Universities of Amsterdam and Paris Diderot. He obtained his PhD in 2004 from the University of Paris-7 Denis Diderot with a thesis on the phonology and morphology of the Japhug language (one of the Tibeto-Burman Gyalrongic languages), based on fieldwork carried out in Sichuan, China, in 2002 - 2003.

He then taught for four years (2005 - 2009) as an assistant and associate professor at the Department of Linguistics of the University Paris Descartes, before taking up a permanent research position at the CNRS in 2015, affiliated to the Centre de recherches linguistiques sur l'Asie orientale (CRLAO). He was promoted to Senior Researcher in 2015.

While retaining his permanent position at the CNRS, he was also elected Director of Studies at the EPHE (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes), i.e. Chair Professor in Linguistic Typology.