May 2025

“Serial predicates in Teanu (Solomons): Resolving complexity” – Closing conference of the ComPLETE project. Paris, May 2025.

→  The slideshow.

Mar 2025

“Dialexification: an empirical tool for observing trends in semantic shift” – Keynote address, DGfS 47 – 47th annual meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft. Mainz, Germany. March 2025.

→  The slideshow.

Dec 2024

“Morphogenesis from generic nouns: Insights from Vanuatu” – 15th conference of the Association of Linguistic Typology (ALT15). Singapore, Dec 2024.

→  The slideshow.

Nov 2024

“𝓔𝓿𝓸Sem, a database of semantic links based on cognate sets” – In A. Zalizniak et al., International conference “Semantic shifts in the world’s languages” (Семантические переходы в языках мира) – Linguistic Forum 2024 – Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscou, nov 2024.

→  The slideshow
→ Access to 𝓔𝓿𝓸Sem.

Aug 2024

[Alexandre François & Daniel Krauße] “Losing verbhood: The dynamics of complex predicates in Lemerig, Vanuatu” – In D. Krauße et al., workshop “Exploring the limits of complex predicates” (ANR-DFG ComPLETE project) – SLE conference – Helsinki, Aug 2024.

→  The slideshow: Powerpoint — Pdf.

Aug 2023

[Alexandre François & Siva Kalyan] "Dialexification: A tool for studying cross-linguistic patterns of semantic change" – Paper presented at ICLC16 (16th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference), Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf.

→  The abstract (→ its original context).
→  The slideshow: Powerpoint — Pdf.

May 2016

The coding of (in)definiteness in northern Vanuatu: Anaphora, specificity, topicality – Paper presented at APLL8, the 8th Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics conference, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London.

→  Handout.

April 2016

“Building (on) a few dictionaries from Asia & the Pacific” – Workshop Challenges of electronic dictionary publication, Dictionaria, Univ. Leipzig. 

→ The slideshow.
→  The handout.

Sept 2014

“Person syncretism and impersonal reference in Vanikoro languages” – Conference Syntax of the World's Languages (SWL6), Università di Pavia.

→  The slideshow.

June 2009

"Verbal number and Suppletion in Hiw".
Paper presented at 11·ical, Eleventh International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, Paris, June 2009.

→  Handout.
→  Download the whole book of abstracts (150 pp., 140 papers) from the 11·ical conference

Sept 2007

"Parallel meanings, divergent forms in the North Vanuatu Sprachbund. Diffusion or genetic inheritance?".
Paper presented at ALT7, the 7th Congress of the Association of Linguistic Typology. Paris, September 2007.

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→  Printer-friendly version (519 Kb).
→  Corresponding article (François 2011)

July 2007

"Verbal aspect and personal pronouns: The history of aorist markers in north Vanuatu".
Paper presented at COOL7, the 7th International Conference on Oceanic Linguistics. Nouméa, July 2007.

→  The slideshow in PDF format (1396 Kb).
→  Printer-friendly version (483 Kb).
→  Corresponding article (2009).

June 2006

"Are Vanikoro languages really Austronesian?".
Paper presented at ALL2, the second conference on Austronesian Languages and Linguistics, organised by UKARG (United Kingdom Austronesian Research Group). Oxford, England.

→  The slideshow in PDF format (756 Kb).