Claire Moyse-Faurie (born 7 October 1949) is a French

linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Linguis ...

specializing in

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 ...

, in particular the languages of

Wallis and Futuna Wallis and Futuna, officially the Territory of the Wallis and Futuna Islands (; french: Wallis-et-Futuna or ', Fakauvea and Fakafutuna: '), is a French island collectivity in the South Pacific, situated between Tuvalu to the northwest, Fiji ...

and of

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Education, career and honours

Moyse-Faurie studied with the linguist André-Georges Haudricourt. After many years working at LACITO (

CNRS The French National Centre for Scientific Research (french: link=no, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe. In 2016, it employed 31,637 ...

) from 1980 onwards, including serving as its deputy director from 1992 to 1995, Moyse-Faurie became emeritus director of research at Lattice in 2021. She held a visiting position as professor at the

University of New Caledonia The University of New Caledonia UNC (''Université de la Nouvelle-Calédonie'') is a French university which is part of the Academy of New Caledonia located in Nouméa. The university goes back to 1987 when the ''Université Française du Pacifi ...

in 2004, 2005, 2013, 2014 and 2015. Moyse-Faurie was appointed Member of the Academia Europaea in 2016. She also served as President of the Société de Linguistique de Paris in 2012.

Research

Alongside descriptive studies of Oceanic languages (

Drehu Drehu (; also known as Dehu, Lifou, Lifu, qene drehu) is an Austronesian language mostly spoken on Lifou Island, Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia. It has about twelve-thousand fluent speakers and the status of a French regional language. This sta ...

, Xârâcùù, Xârâgurè, West Uvean, Haméa, East Futunan, East Uvean), Moyse-Faurie has worked on linguistic topics such as valency,

nominalization In linguistics, nominalization or nominalisation is the use of a word that is not a noun (e.g., a verb, an adjective or an adverb) as a noun, or as the head of a noun phrase. This change in functional category can occur through morphological tr ...

, reflexives, reciprocals,

grammaticalization In historical linguistics, grammaticalization (also known as grammatization or grammaticization) is a process of language change by which words representing objects and actions (i.e. nouns and verbs) become grammatical markers (such as affixes or p ...

, and

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 ...

. In 1982 she proposed an orthography for this language, which has subsequently been used in teaching; she also published a dictionary of Xârâcùù together with Marie-Adèle Néchérö-Jorédié in 1986.

Selected publications

* Moyse-Faurie, Claire, & Marie-Adèle Néchérö-Jorédié. 1986. ''Dictionnaire Xârâcùù-Français (Nouvelle-Calédonie)''. Leuven: Peeters. * Moyse-Faurie, Claire. 1993. ''Dictionnaire futunien-français: avec index français-futunien''. Leuven: Peeters. * Moyse-Faurie, Claire, & John Lynch. 2004. Coordination in Oceanic languages and Proto-Oceanic. In Martin Haspelmath (ed.), ''Coordinating constructions'', 445–497. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. * Kayser, Manfred, Silke Brauer, Richard Cordaux, Amanda Casto, Oscar Lao, Lev A. Zhivotovsky, Claire Moyse-Faurie, Robb B. Rutledge, Wulf Schiefenhoevel, David Gil, Alice A. Lin, Peter A. Underhill, Peter J. Oefner, Ronald J. Trent, & Mark Stoneking. 2006. Melanesian and Asian origins of Polynesians: mtDNA and Y chromosome gradients across the Pacific. ''Molecular Biology and Evolution'' 23 (11), 2234–2244. * Moyse-Faurie, Claire. 2008. Constructions expressing middle, reflexive and reciprocal situations in some Oceanic languages. In Ekkehard König & Volker Gast (eds.), ''Reciprocals and Reflexives: Theoretical and Typological Explorations'', 105–168. Berlin: De Gruyter.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Moyse-Faurie, Claire Living people French National Centre for Scientific Research scientists Members of Academia Europaea French women linguists Linguists from France Linguists of Oceanic languages 1949 births 21st-century linguists 20th-century linguists Research directors of the French National Centre for Scientific Research