Martine Vanhove is a French linguist, Research Director emerita at LLACAN (

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 ...

), specializing in

Cushitic The Cushitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They are spoken primarily in the Horn of Africa, with minorities speaking Cushitic languages to the north in Egypt and the Sudan, and to the south in Kenya and Tanzania. As o ...

and

Semitic languages The Semitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They are spoken by more than 330 million people across much of West Asia, the Horn of Africa, and latterly North Africa, Malta, West Africa, Chad, and in large immigra ...

spoken in

Djibouti Djibouti, ar, جيبوتي ', french: link=no, Djibouti, so, Jabuuti officially the Republic of Djibouti, is a country in the Horn of Africa, bordered by Somalia to the south, Ethiopia to the southwest, Eritrea in the north, and the Red ...

Yemen Yemen (; ar, ٱلْيَمَن, al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen,, ) is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula, and borders Saudi Arabia to the Saudi Arabia–Yemen border, north and ...

and

Malta Malta ( , , ), officially the Republic of Malta ( mt, Repubblika ta' Malta ), is an island country in the Mediterranean Sea. It consists of an archipelago, between Italy and Libya, and is often considered a part of Southern Europe. It lies ...

Education and research

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. In 2002 she earned her

Habilitation Habilitation is the highest university degree, or the procedure by which it is achieved, in many European countries. The candidate fulfills a university's set criteria of excellence in research, teaching and further education, usually including a ...

(

INALCO Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales ( en, National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations), abbreviated as INALCO, is a French university specializing in the teaching of languages and cultures from the world. ...

), with a Habilitation thesis entitled, ''Pour une linguistique dynamique: Contribution aux études chamito-sémitiques; Dialectologie arabe (Malte, Yémen) et langues couchitiques (afar, bedja)''. 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. Her research interests include

information structure In linguistics, information structure, also called information packaging, describes the way in which information is formally packaged within a sentence.Lambrecht, Knud. 1994. ''Information structure and sentence form.'' Cambridge: Cambridge Univer ...

, (lexical) semantics and lexical typology,

areal linguistics Geolinguistics has been identified by some as being a branch of linguistics and by others as being an offshoot of language geography which is further defined in terms of being a branch of human geography. When seen as a branch of linguistics, geolin ...

and comparative Semitic. She also was involved in co-editing a Corpus of

AfroAsiatic The Afroasiatic languages (or Afro-Asiatic), also known as Hamito-Semitic, or Semito-Hamitic, and sometimes also as Afrasian, Erythraean or Lisramic, are a language family of about 300 languages that are spoken predominantly in the geographic su ...

, and an important volume (Mettouchi et al. 2015) of studies based on this language corpus.

Honors and awards

Vanhove is a member of the

Academia Europaea The Academia Europaea is a pan-European Academy of Humanities, Letters, Law, and Sciences. The Academia was founded in 1988 as a functioning Europe-wide Academy that encompasses all fields of scholarly inquiry. It acts as co-ordinator of Europea ...

since 2019. In 2009 she was the President of the Linguistic Society of Paris.

Selected publications

* 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

External links

Vanhove - Information structuring in Beja (North Cushitic)
(video of plenary lecture delivered at NACAL 47 conference) {{DEFAULTSORT:Vanhove, Martine 1955 births Women linguists Members of Academia Europaea Living people Linguists from France Linguists of Afroasiatic languages