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Name:	Alexandre  Francois (IPA: alɛksãdʁə fʁãswa)
Institution:	Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
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Homepage:	http://alex.francois.free.fr/
State and/or Country:	France
Linguistic Field(s):	General Linguistics Historical Linguistics Language Documentation Morphology Phonology Semantics Syntax Typology Lexicography
Subject Language(s):	Hiw Koro Lo-Toga Vure Mwotlap Mwerlap Vurës Nume Teanu Tanema Lehali Vano Wetamut Vera'a
Language Family(ies):	Oceanic
Selected Publications:	2002. Araki : A disappearing language of Vanuatu. Pacific Linguistics, 522. 375pp. 2003. La sémantique du prédicat en mwotlap (Vanuatu). Société de Linguistique de Paris, Peeters. 408pp. 2000. Vowel shifting and cloning in Motlav : historical explanation vs formal description. Proceedings of AFLA-7, Amsterdam. 2003. Of men, hills and winds: Space directionals in Mwotlap. Oceanic Linguistics 42-2, 407-437. 2004. Reconstructing the geocentric system of Proto Oceanic. Oceanic Linguistics 43-1, 1-32. 2005. A typological overview of Mwotlap, an Oceanic language of Vanuatu. Linguistic Typology 9-1. forthc. Serial verb constructions in Mwotlap. In Dixon & Aikhenvald (eds), Serial Verb Constructions: A cross-linguistic typology, Explorations in Linguistic Typology. OUP.
Announced on LINGUIST :	Araki
Courses Taught:	- Field methods in linguistics. - Introduction to General Linguistics. - Introduction to Mwotlap. - Morphology. - French as a Second language.
Dissertation Abstract:	Contraintes de structures et liberté dans l'organisation du discours. Une description du mwotlap, langue océanienne du Vanuatu [Structural constraints and freedom in speech elaboration: A description of Mwotlap, an Oceanic language of Vanuatu]
Academic Paper Abstract:	Phonotactics and the prestopped velar lateral of Hiw: resolving the ambiguity of a complex segment
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