Françoise Ozanne-Rivierre (1941–2007) was a French linguist based at

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CNRS The French National Centre for Scientific Research (, , CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe. In 2016, it employed 31,637 staff, including 11,137 tenured researchers, 13,415 eng ...

, internationally known for her work on the

languages of New Caledonia In New Caledonia, a ''sui generis'' collectivity of France, French is the official and predominant language. The collectivity is also home to about thirty New Caledonian languages, which form a branch of the Southern Oceanic languages. They ...

. ''In Memoriam Françoise Ozanne-Rivierre'', 2007. She completed her doctorate in linguistics in 1973, with a dissertation titled ''Le iaai, langue mélanésienne d'Ouvéa (Nouvelle-Calédonie)'', at

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, where she was a student of Haudricourt and Hagège. She became a member of the CNRS in 1972 and joined LACITO in 1976, where she remained until her retirement in 2006. She published extensively on several New Caledonian languages, especially Iaai; the various languages of

Hienghène Hienghène (,; )http://www.tourismeprovincenord.nc/fr/les-communes/hienghene is a commune in the North Province of New Caledonia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean. It is located on a bay called Hienghène Bay, known for its ...

( Fwâi, Pije, Jawe,

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);

Fagauvea West Uvean (also Uvean or Faga Ouvéa; ''Fagauvea'' in the vernacular) is a Polynesian outlier language spoken on the island of Ouvéa, in the Loyalty island group of New Caledonia, and in the capital of Nouméa. West Uvean has been studied b ...

; and Nyelâyu. She was known for her work on

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comparative linguistics, in particular for the application of the

comparative method In linguistics, the comparative method is a technique for studying the development of languages by performing a feature-by-feature comparison of two or more languages with common descent from a shared ancestor and then extrapolating backwards ...

to the study of

Oceanic languages The approximately 450 Oceanic languages are a branch of the Austronesian languages. The area occupied by speakers of these languages includes Polynesia, as well as much of Melanesia and Micronesia. Though covering a vast area, Oceanic languages ...

. Her husband, (1938-2018), was also a linguist working on the languages of New Caledonia.

External links

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Homage to Françoise Ozanne-Rivierre and Jean-Claude Rivierre
2020, ''

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''.
Field recordings created by F. Ozanne-Rivierre in various languages of New Caledonia
and archived in the

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Selected publications

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References

French women linguists 1941 births 2007 deaths 20th-century French linguists {{france-linguist-stub