François JACQUESSON :

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François Jacquesson
Linguist
Directeur de Recherche (October 1, 2008), CNRS
email : jacquess, at: vjf.cnrs.fr

webpage on CNRS-Lacito

Cursus

FJ was born March 1st, 1955 in Reims (France)

He was taught maths and classics until Baccalaureat, 1972.
Then went on with "Lettres classiques" (Ancient Greek, Latin), until graduation.
Taught "Lettres classiques" in French Lycées et collèges until 1996.

• 1995. PhD "Détermination et Prédication. Etude typologique de langues où les deux niveaux syntaxiques admettent un marquage morphologique identique." EPHE IVe section. Sous la direction de Claude Hagège.
  This PhD thesis will soon be accessible (pdf format) in FJ's page on the Lacito Website.
• 1997. Elected in CNRS.
  Since then belong to the Research Unit "Lacito : Laboratoire des langues et civilisations à tradition orale" (UMR 7107), one of the major laboratories specialized in Linguistics within CNRS. http://lacito.vjf.cnrs.fr/
• 2005. Habilitation. "Les Langues Bodo-Garo. Essai de phonologie historique et comparative". Paris-3. Sous la direction de Claude Hagège.
• 2008. Elected Directeur de Recherche, CNRS. From October the 1st.
• 2009. Director of the Lacito laboratory, CNRS.

Publications (See Webpage or CV extended)

He published 4 books, a 5th one is currently being written.
and more than 50 articles on various domains of Linguistics.

Recent Activities at the International level

FJ organized several international workshops:

• 2005. (with Laurent Sagart) Aussois 2005. Languages & Genes, Recent Research and Emergent Results. Organized with ESF (OMLL) funding.
  http://www.ohll.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/pages/Conf_Aussois_2005_fr.htm
• 2007, Sept. "Migrations". Held in Porquerolles (Var, France). With ESF (OMLL) funding.
  http://lacito.vjf.cnrs.fr/colloque/migrations/index.htm
• 2007, Oct. "Steepes and their suburbs". Held in Porquerolles (Var, France). With ESF (OMLL) funding. http://lacito.vjf.cnrs.fr/colloque/steppes/index.htm

He is or was coordinator of several international Projects:

• 2000-2007. The "North & South of Himalayas" French Project, which was thereafter devenopped into the "East meets West" Project within OMLL, thanks to the European Science Foundation. http://lacito.vjf.cnrs.fr/programmes-partenariat/pp-east-west.htm
• 2006-2010. "The Brahmaputra Project", funded by ANR, the French Agence Nationale pour la Recherche. The Project has a powerful website: http://vjf.cnrs.fr/brahmaputra
• 2008-2009. "Histoire et géographie de la couleur. Faits de langue et systèmes de communication". Funded by ISCC, Institut des Sciences de la Communication du CNRS.

He is consultant or reviewer for several International Linguistics Journals

He is expert or consultant (Linguistics) for ANR (Agence Nationale pour la Recherche) and for ESF (European Science Foundation).