Robert Nicolaï is a French linguist specializing in the
Songhay languages
The Songhay, Songhai or Ayneha languages (, or ) are a group of closely related languages/dialects centred on the middle stretches of the Niger River in the West African countries of Mali, Niger, Benin, Burkina Faso and Nigeria. In particular, ...
, professor at the
University of Nice Sophia Antipolis
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.
He is also founder
[Se]
Rethinking Contact Induced Change
Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. and co-editor of the ''
Journal of Language Contact''.
Selected publications
*Nicolaï, Robert (1981). ''Les dialectes du songhay (contribution à l'étude des changements linguistiques)''. Paris: SELAF
*Nicolaï, Robert (1984). ''Préliminaires à une étude sur l'origine du songhay (problématique, matériaux et hypothèses)''. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer.
*Nicolaï, Robert (1990). ''Parentés linguistiques (à propos du songhay)''. Paris: Editions du CNRS.
*Nicolaï, Robert; Zima, Petr (1997). ''Songhay''. Münich/Newcastle: Lincom Europa.
*Nicolaï, Robert. (2000). ''La Traversée de l’empirique : essai d’épistémologie sur la construction des représentations de l’évolution des langues''. Paris: Ophrys.
*Nicolaï, Robert (2003). ''La force des choses ou l’épreuve nilo-saharienne : questions sur les reconstructions archéologiques et l’évolution des langues''. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag.
*Nicolaï, Robert (2007). ''La vision des faits, De l'a posteriori à l'a priori dans la saisie des langues''. Paris: L'Harmattan.
Notes
External links
Chair of "Dynamics of Language and Language Contact", University of NiceJournal of Language Contact
Living people
Linguists from France
Linguists of Songhay languages
French Africanists
Year of birth missing (living people)
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