Denis Creissels (born 18 September 1943) is a French professor of linguistics at the

University of Lyon The University of Lyon ( , or UdL) is a university system ( ''ComUE'') based in Lyon, France. It comprises 12 members and 9 associated institutions. The 3 main constituent universities in this center are: Claude Bernard University Lyon 1, which f ...

. After studying mathematics and Russian, he has taught general linguistics at the

University of Grenoble The (, ''Grenoble Alps University'', abbr. UGA) is a Grands établissements, ''grand établissement'' in Grenoble, France. Founded in 1339, it is the third largest university in France with about 60,000 students and over 3,000 researchers. Es ...

from 1970 to 1996, and at the University of Lyon from 1996 to 2008. He is now professor emeritus at the University of Lyon, and member of the research team Dynamique du Langage. He is specialised in languages of Africa and the Caucasus. He has done extensive research on Hungarian,

Tswana Tswana may refer to: * Tswana people, the Bantu languages, Bantu speaking people in Botswana, South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Zambia, and other Southern Africa regions * Tswana language, the language spoken by the (Ba)Tswana people * Tswanaland, ...

Malinke Maninka (also known as Malinke), or more precisely Eastern Maninka, is the name of several closely related languages and dialects of the southeastern Manding subgroup of the Mande language family (itself, possibly linked to the Niger–Congo ...

and Akhvakh. His 1995 and 2006 books on syntax are widely used as textbooks in

linguistic typology Linguistic typology (or language typology) is a field of linguistics that studies and classifies languages according to their structural features to allow their comparison. Its aim is to describe and explain the structural diversity and the co ...

and

syntax In linguistics, syntax ( ) is the study of how words and morphemes combine to form larger units such as phrases and sentences. Central concerns of syntax include word order, grammatical relations, hierarchical sentence structure (constituenc ...

in French-speaking universities. He has taught as invited professor at the Summer School on Linguistic Typology in

Leipzig Leipzig (, ; ; Upper Saxon: ; ) is the most populous city in the States of Germany, German state of Saxony. The city has a population of 628,718 inhabitants as of 2023. It is the List of cities in Germany by population, eighth-largest city in Ge ...

in 2010.

Monographs

*2009 Le malinké de Kita. Cologne : Rüdiger Köppe.Rüdiger Köppe Verlag *2006 Syntaxe générale, une introduction typologique. Paris : Hermès. (2 vol., 412 p. & 334 p.) *1997 (en collaboration avec A.M. Chebanne et H.W. Nkhwa) Tonal morphology of the Setswana verb. Munich : LINCOM Europa. 227 p. *1995 Éléments de syntaxe générale. Presses Universitaires de France. 332 p. *1994 Aperçu sur les structures phonologiques des langues négro-africaines, 2ème édition entièrement revue et complétée. Grenoble : Éditions Littéraires et Linguistiques de l’Université de Grenoble. 320 p. *1991 Description des langues négro-africaines et théorie syntaxique. Grenoble : Éditions Littéraires et Linguistiques de l’Université de Grenoble, 466 p. *1989 Aperçu sur les structures phonologiques des langues négro-africaines, 1ère édition. Grenoble : Éditions Littéraires et Linguistiques de l’Université de Grenoble. 288 p. *1983 Éléments de grammaire de la langue mandinka. Grenoble : Publications de l’Université des Langues et Lettres de Grenoble. 223 p. *1979 (en collaboration avec N. Kouadio) Les tons du baoulé (parler de la région de Toumodi). Abidjan : Institut de Linguistique Appliquée. 123 p. *1977 (en collaboration avec N. Kouadio) Description phonologique et grammaticale d’un parler baoulé. Abidjan : Institut de Linguistique Appliquée. 642 p.

References

External links

*http://www.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/annuaires/index.asp?Langue=FR&Page=Denis%20CREISSELS *http://deniscreissels.fr/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Creissels, Denis 1943 births Living people Linguists from France Linguists of Bantu languages Linguists of Mande languages Linguists of Northeast Caucasian languages