The Lacito is an interdisciplinary research unit whose members carry out fieldwork-based research in societies whose traditions are primarily oral. The Lacito is one of the partners of the labex Empirical Foundations of Linguistics (EFL).
Diversité des langues et changement historique [Language diversity and historical change] - Langues océaniennes [Oceanic languages] - Langues tibéto-birmanes [Tibeto-Burman languages] - Linguistique historique et comparatisme austronésien [Historical linguistics and Oceanic comparative studies] - Typologie et dialogue : la structuration informationnelle des questions et des réponses - Typologie et diversité des langues [Typology and language diversity] See more
Ce livre a pour ambition de faire connaître tout un pan de la culture et de l'histoire des Tchétchènes. Il est articulé autour de la nouvelle écrite par le père de l'une des auteures à la mémoire de son prestigieux ancêtre Zelimkhan qui a combattu sa vie durant pour la liberté et l'indépendance de son pays, la Tchétchénie. See more
The Sherdukpens (or Shertukpens) are a rather small but important population living in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh (West Kameng District), close to Bhutan and Tibet, in the eastern Himalayas. They number less than 5,000 and this has no doubt been the case for centuries.[…]See more
French presentation translated into English:
[Jacqueline M.C. Thomas, ethnolinguist and founder of the LACITO, has untiringly worked to establish the importance of not separating a language from the community speaking it. "Linguistic studies are meaningless unless they are based on very sound knowledge of the culture in which the languages are spoken". She further insists that "to study a society means to perfectly master the language(s) it speaks".
Based on examples garnered from across the globe, this Festschrift testifies to the multiplicity of ways in which the complexities of language and discourse can be broached […] ] See more
On Thursday 20 June2013 (14.30-16.30), talk by Karell Marchand on "Les propositions complétives régies par des verbes de perception: exemples australiens et papous" See more
Pablo Kirtchuk is teaching Aramaic in Sarcelles
-- 25 May 2013 article, online on L'Alsace
-- 23 mai 2013 video, online on DailyMotion
aux îles Salomon, dans le Pacifique sud-ouest, là où s'est achevée tragiquement l'expédition Lapérouse en 1788 See more
10 exhibits recommended by the Lacito which retrace...
...30 years of fieldwork devoted to the study of languages and the peoples who speak them. See more
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