Nicolas Tournadre is a professor at the

University of Provence The University of Provence Aix-Marseille I (french: Université de Provence) was a public research university mostly located in Aix-en-Provence and Marseille. It was one of the three Universities of Aix-Marseille and was part of the Academy of ...

specializing in

morphosyntax In linguistics, morphology () is the study of words, how they are formed, and their relationship to other words in the same language. It analyzes the structure of words and parts of words such as stems, root words, prefixes, and suffixes. Morph ...

and

typology Typology is the study of types or the systematic classification of the types of something according to their common characteristics. Typology is the act of finding, counting and classification facts with the help of eyes, other senses and logic. Ty ...

. He is a member of the

LACITO LACITO (''Langues et Civilisations à Tradition Orale'') is a multidisciplinary research organisation, principally devoted to the study of cultures and languages of oral tradition. LACITO is a branch of the Centre National de la Recherche Scie ...

lab of the CNRS. His research mainly deals with ergative

and grammatical

semantics Semantics (from grc, σημαντικός ''sēmantikós'', "significant") is the study of reference, meaning, or truth. The term can be used to refer to subfields of several distinct disciplines, including philosophy, linguistics and comp ...

of tense,

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, mood and

evidentiality In linguistics, evidentiality is, broadly, the indication of the nature of evidence for a given statement; that is, whether evidence exists for the statement and if so, what kind. An evidential (also verificational or validational) is the particul ...

. Tournadre specializes in

Tibetic languages The Tibetic languages form a well-defined group of languages descended from Old Tibetan (7th to 9th centuries).Tournadre, Nicolas. 2014. "The Tibetic languages and their classification." In ''Trans-Himalayan linguistics, historical and descriptiv ...

. Since 1986, he has carried out fieldwork on the Tibetan High Plateau, in the Himalayas and the Karakoram in China,

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

Bhutan Bhutan (; dz, འབྲུག་ཡུལ་, Druk Yul ), officially the Kingdom of Bhutan,), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is situated in the Eastern Himalayas, between China in the north and India in the south. A mountainou ...

Nepal Nepal (; ne, :ne:नेपाल, नेपाल ), formerly the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal ( ne, सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in S ...

and

Pakistan Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), is a country in South Asia. It is the world's fifth-most populous country, with a population of almost 243 million people, and has the world's second-lar ...

. Tournadre taught at the

Institute of Oriental Languages The Institute of Oriental Languages was founded in 1956 on the basis of a number of departments belonging to History and Philology faculties of Moscow State University. N.A. Smirnov became the first rector (1956–1958). In 1972 the institute was ...

(Inalco), at the

Paris 8 University Paris 8 University Vincennes-Saint-Denis (french: Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis) is a public university in Paris, France. Once part of the historic University of Paris, it is now an autonomous public institution. It is one of the th ...

, at the

University of Virginia The University of Virginia (UVA) is a public research university in Charlottesville, Virginia. Founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson, the university is ranked among the top academic institutions in the United States, with highly selective ad ...

and conducted research in the Tibet Academy of Social Sciences. He obtained his Ph.D. in 1992 at the University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle under the supervision of Claude Hagège. In 2000, he was awarded the CNRS Bronze medal.

Publications

*''Manual of Standard Tibetan'' with Sangda Dorje. (2 CDs), preface : Matthew Kapstein, Snowlion. Ithaca, New York. French Edition: Avec Sangda Dorjé, 2003, ''Manuel de tibétain standard, langue et civilisation'' (préface de Claude Hagège), Paris, L’Asiathèque « Langues et mondes », 544 p., accompagné de 2 CD; 2nde édition révisée. *Avec Françoise Robin, ''Le grand livre des proverbes tibétains'', Paris, Presses du Châtelet, 235 p., 2006 *
L'ergativité en tibétain moderne
', Peeters Publishers, 1996 *''Comparaison des systèmes médiatifs de quatre dialectes tibétains (tibétain central, ladakhi, dzongkha et amdo)''—In : L'énonciation médiatisée / Z. Guentchéva (Ed.) -- Louvain : Peeters, 1996, p. 195-213 *Avec Kesang Gyurmé, et Heather Stoddard ''Le clair miroir'' 1994 *Avec Lhakpa Norbu Sherpa, Gyurme Chodrak and Guillaume Oisel, 2009, ''Sherpa-English and English-Sherpa Dictionary, with Literary Tibetan and Nepali equivalents'', 295 p. Vajra Bookstore, Kathmandu. *''Le Prisme des langues'', Paris, L’Asiathèque, 352 p., 2014. Second improved edition: 2016

References

External links

Nicolas Tournadre's personal website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Tournadre, Nicolas Tibetologists Linguists from France Living people Academic staff of the University of Provence 1959 births French National Centre for Scientific Research scientists