Oct 2026

[Sandrine Bessis & Alex François] “Crossing worlds in Vanuatu narratives” – In Transcending boundaries, Connecting worlds. 15th int’l conference of Young Folklorists (YoFo). Univ. Ljubljana, Slovenia, Oct 2026.

→  Le diaporama.

Sept 2026

“Renewing grammar through constructions: On some TAM markers in Mwotlap, Vanuatu” – In Grammaticalization and Diachronic Construction Grammar: Convergences and Challenges. Montpellier, Oct 2026.

→  Le diaporama.

Juin 2026

[Sandrine Bessis & Alexandre François] “Living with fire: Volcanic mythologies in Vanuatu” – Poster presenté au Congrès de la International Society for Folk Narrative Research “Nature in narrative”. Reykjavík, Iceland, 13–16 June 2026.

→ Le poster.

Août 2025

[Mathieu Dehouck, Alexandre François & Tom Poulton] “Disentangling areal and hereditary signals in colexification and dialexification patterns” – In J. Mansfield & P. Widmer, workshop Disentangling contact and inheritance in lexical semantics. SLE Bordeaux, août 2025.

→  Le diaporama.

Août 2025

[Alexandre François & Daniel Krauße] “Two Melanesian pathways to linguistic diversity: West Papua vs. Vanuatu” – In M. Urban (conv.), workshop The diachrony of language geography: Linking small-scale and large-scale perspectives. SLE Bordeaux, août 2025.

→  Le diaporama.

Jun 2025

[Fabio Meroni & Alexandre François] “Capturing constructional patterns in texts: a NooJ approach to the Mwotlap corpus” – 13^th Conference on Oceanic Languages (COOL13). Canberra, June 2025.

→  Le diaporama.

Jun 2025

[Sandrine Bessis & Alexandre François] “Towards a typology of Oceanic mythologies: Insights from Vanuatu” – 13^th Conference on Oceanic Languages (COOL13). Canberra, June 2025.

→  Le diaporama.

Mai 2025

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

→  Le diaporama.

Mars 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.

→  Le diaporama.

Mars 2025

“Serialising constructions in Vanuatu: The semantics of syntax” – Workshop on Complex predicates. DGfS 47 – 47th annual meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft. Mainz, Germany. March 2025.

→  Le diaporama.

Déc 2024

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

→  Le diaporama.

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.

→  Le diaporama
→ Accès à 𝓔𝓿𝓸Sem.

Août 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.

→  Le diaporama: en mode Powerpoint — Pdf.

Août 2023

[Alexandre François & Siva Kalyan] "Dialexification: A tool for studying cross-linguistic patterns of semantic change" – Communication présentée à ICLC16 (16ème colloque international de linguistique cognitive), Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf.

→  Le résumé (→ cf. son contexte original). .
→  Le diaporama: en mode Powerpoint — en Pdf.

Mai 2016

"The coding of (in)definiteness in northern Vanuatu: Anaphora, specificity, topicality" – Communication présentée à APLL8 (8ème colloque Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics), School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London.

→  Exemplier.

Avril 2016

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

→ Le diaporama.
→  L'exemplier.

Sept 2014

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

→  Le diaporama.

Juin 2009

"Verbal number and Suppletion in Hiw".
Communication présentée à 11·ical, Onzième Conférence Internationale de Linguistique Austronésienne, Paris, Juin 2009.

→  L'exemplier (en anglais, 749 Ko).  
→  Accès au livre complet des résumés du colloque 11·ical (150 pp., 140 communications).

Sept 2007

"Parallel meanings, divergent forms in the North Vanuatu Sprachbund. Diffusion or genetic inheritance?".
Conférence présentée à ALT7, 7ème congrès de l'Association of Linguistic Typology. Paris, Septembre 2007.

→  Diaporama en PDF (1424 Ko).  
→  Version imprimable (519 Ko).
→  L'article (François 2011)4.

Juillet 2007

"Verbal aspect and personal pronouns: The history of aorist markers in north Vanuatu".
Conférence présentée à COOL7, 7ème International Conference on Oceanic Linguistics. Nouméa, Juillet 2007.

→  Diaporama en PDF (1396 Ko).
→  Version imprimable (483 Ko).

Juin 2006

"Are Vanikoro languages really Austronesian?".
Conférence présentée à ALL2, deuxième conférence Austronesian Languages and Linguistics, organisée par l'UKARG (United Kingdom Austronesian Research Group). Oxford, Angleterre.

→  Diaporama en PDF (756 Ko).