In the last few years, I have been the leader (or co-leader) of several funded projects.
I will mention here a selection, with appropriate links.

A selection of scientific projects

In 2004–2007, I was the PI (principal investigator) of an ANR Junior project on the musical arts of Vanuatu, together with ethnomusicologist Monika Stern, and anthropologist Eric Wittersheim. The project's full name was “Rhythms for dancing, poems for singing in Melanesia: Aesthetics, transmission and social impact of musical arts in Vanuatu”; our aim was to document, describe, and highlight the richness of musical traditions in Vanuatu – from the diversity of musical instruments to the variety of dance types and song genres, not to forget the arts of oral poetry. Our project gave birth to a video documentary, “The Poet's Salary” (2009), as well as a discographic publication “Music of Vanuatu – Celebrations and mysteries” (2013), accompanied by a 128-page ebook.

In 2022–2025, I was the co-PI of an ANR-DFG project on the typology of complex predicates, together with Martine Vanhove (LLACAN), Walter Bisang & Andrej Malchukov (Univ. Mainz, Allemagne). The project, called “Complex Predicates in Languages: Emergence, Typology, Evolution”, was the source of numerous workshops and conferences; an online database (soon to be released); and a collective volume (in preparation).

Since 2023, I've been leading a research project on dialexification, etymology and lexical change. This project, developed with Siva Kalyan (U. Queensland) & Mathieu Dehouck (LaTTiCe), is called “𝓔𝓿𝓸Sem: A database of dialexification across language families”.
Derived from 𝓔𝓿𝓸Sem is 𝓔𝓿𝓸Lex: An online series of comparative dictionaries: this is an opportunity for historical linguists to publish collections of cognate sets in language families of their expertise.

As of 2025, I'm leading a scientific consortium named “Héritages Linguistiques, Cultures orales, Éducation en Océanie”. This consortium, created with Jacques Vernaudon (Maison des Sciences de l'homme du Pacifique), Alejandrina Cristia (ENS–LSCP) and Marie Salaün (U. Paris-Cité), aims at documenting, analysing and promoting the languages of the Pacific – as well as their intangible heritage (verbal arts & oral literature).