Martine Vanhove

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Martine Vanhove is a French linguist, Research Director emerita at LLACAN (CNRS), specializing in Cushitic and Semitic languages spoken in Djibouti, Yemen and Malta.

Education and research[edit]

Vanhove earned her PhD in 1990 from the Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle, Paris 3, with a dissertation entitled, Morphosyntaxe et stylistique en maltais: Le système verbal et la phrase nominale, under the supervision of David Cohen.[1] In 2002 she earned her Habilitation (INALCO), with a Habilitation thesis entitled, Pour une linguistique dynamique: Contribution aux études chamito-sémitiques; Dialectologie arabe (Malte, Yémen) et langues couchitiques (afar, bedja).[2]

She joined the CNRS in 1992 and was affiliated with LLACAN from 1995 until her retirement in 2022. She was Director of LLACAN from 2007 to 2013.[3] Her research interests include information structure, (lexical) semantics and lexical typology, areal linguistics and comparative Semitic. She also was involved in co-editing a Corpus of AfroAsiatic,[4] and an important volume (Mettouchi et al. 2015) of studies based on this language corpus.[5]

Honors and awards[edit]

Vanhove is a member of the Academia Europaea since 2019.[6] In 2009 she was the President of the Linguistic Society of Paris.[7]

Selected publications[edit]

  • Adamou, Evangelia, Katharina Haude & Martine Vanhove (eds.) 2018. Information Structure in Lesser-described Languages: Studies in prosody and syntax. Benjamins. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.199
  • Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria, Ekaterina Rakhilina, and Martine Vanhove. 2016. The Semantics of Lexical Typology. In Nick Riemer (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Semantics, 434–454. London, New York: Routledge.
  • Mettouchi, Amina, Martine Vanhove & Dominique Caubet (eds). 2015. Corpus-based Studies of Lesser-Described Languages: The CorpAfroAs Corpus of Spoken AfroAsiatic. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
  • Simeone-Senelle, Marie-Claude & Martine Vanhove. 2006. Is there a Red Sea linguistic area? APAL (Annual Publication in African Linguistics) 4, 31–67.
  • Vanhove, Martine. 1995. A propos du verbe dans les dialectes arabes de Yafi‘ (Yémen). Dialectologia Arabica. A Collection of Articles in Honour of the Sixtieth Birthday of Professor Heikki Palva. Special issue of Studia Orientalia: 257–269.
  • Vanhove, Martine. 2017. Le Beja. Leuven, Paris : Peeters.
  • Vanhove, Martine, Stolz, Thomas, Urdze, Aina and Otsuka, Hitomi (eds.). 2012. Morphologies in Contact. Berlin: Akademie Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1524/9783050057699

References[edit]

  1. ^ Vanhove, Martine (1990-01-01). Morphosyntaxe et stylistique en maltais : le systeme verbal et la phrase nominale (These de doctorat thesis). Paris 3.
  2. ^ "Academy of Europe: CV". www.ae-info.org. Retrieved 2023-05-20.
  3. ^ "LLACAN - Martine Vanhove". llacan.cnrs.fr. Retrieved 2023-05-20.
  4. ^ "CorpAfroAs: Corpus Afro-Asiatique". corpafroas.huma-num.fr. Retrieved 2023-05-20.
  5. ^ Schnell, Stefan. "Review of "Corpus based studies..."". Language Documentation and Conservation.
  6. ^ "Academy of Europe: Vanhove Martine". www.ae-info.org. Retrieved 2023-05-20.
  7. ^ "Société de Linguistique de Paris - Présidents et secrétaires". www.slp-paris.com. Retrieved 2023-05-20.

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