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Caroline IMBERT

• Asst. Professor, University of Grenoble 3

 imbert.caroline@gmail.com

Teams :    

 TRAINING AND PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

Systems dynamics and functional motivations in Path coding. Typological description of Homeric Greek and Old English. Advisor: Colette Grinevald.

PhD dissertation defended on Nov. 27th 2008, with high distinction.

Jury members:

• Colette Grinevald, Professor, CNRS – DDL / Université Lyon 2
• Scott DeLancey, Professor, University of Oregon
• Maya Hickmann, Directrice de recherches, CNRS – SFL / Université Paris 8
• Diana Lewis, Maître de conférence, CNRS – DDL / Université de Lyon 2
• Silvia Luraghi, Associate Professor, Université de Pavia
• Christiane Marchello-Nizia, Professor, CNRS – ICAR, ENS-LSH de Lyon

 RESEARCH INTERESTS

Linguistic expression and coding strategies of space in language typology. Study of satellites and adpositions.

Dynamics of competition and functional motivations in the emergence and decline of constructions.

Asymetric morphosyntactic treatment of the notion of Goal in Path coding; linguistic and psycholinguistic perspectives.

Grammaticalization processes.

Functional-typological linguistics.

Morphosyntax.

 SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES

Active member of the international "TRAJECTORY" Research Project (French CNRS / Federation of Research in Typology and Linguistic Universals).
Project website

Webmaster of the international "TRAJECTORY" Research Project (website / mailing list creation and administration).
Project website

Presentations in the "TRAJECTORY" team's sessions:
Project website

04/07/2006 - "Ancient languages in a functional-typological perspective: the coding strategy(-ies) of Path in Homeric Greek"

03/02/2006 - "Satellite-framed language: le déplacement spontané en grec archaïque"

25/11/2005 - "L'expression de l'espace en grec archaïque. Première approche"

21/10/2005 - "Noms relateurs en akkadien. Première ébauche d'une analyse typologique"

Creation and teaching of a new experimental Methodology class with Lise Herzhaft (URFIST, University of Lyon 1): "Electronic documentary resources in linguistics" (URFIST class #632 at the ENS-LSH of Lyon). 24 May 2007.

Participation in the summer session of the Institute of Ancient Languages of the ENS-LSH of Lyon, June 30th to July 8th 2005.

 TEACHING

(Taught at the University of Lyon 2 and the University of Provence from 2004 to 2008):

2007-2008 - "Morphologie et Syntaxe".
Sciences du Langage 2ème année, Aix-Marseille I.

2007-2008 - "Domaine des Sciences du Langage".
Sciences du Langage 1ère année, Aix-Marseille I.

2006-2007 - "Linguistic Sciences in English".
Sciences du Langage 2ème année, Université Lyon 2.

2004-2007 - "Linguistique générale 1".
Sciences du Langage 1ère année, Université Lyon 2.

 OTHER INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES

2007 - Visiting Scholar (February-March-April) in the Linguistics Department of the University of Oregon, in Eugene. Sponsor: Scott deLancey.

2006 - Visiting Scholar (April-May-June) in the Linguistics Department of the University of Oregon, in Eugene. Sponsor: Scott deLancey.

19-29 March 2006 - Leipzig Spring School on Linguistic Diversity, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.

Interview in the Register Guard (Eugene, Oregon): Paper issue of Monday, November 26th 2007. "Personal Life" section, front page.
Internet issue: read

• Access Caroline's WebCV and full Curriculum here

Imbert, C., 2008, "Dynamique des systèmes et motivations fonctionnelles dans l’encodage de la Trajectoire. Description typologique du grec homérique et du vieil-anglais", Thèse de Doctorat, Sciences du Langage, Université Lyon 2

Imbert, C., 2004, "L’expression de l’espace en turc : une approche fonctionnelle-typologique", Mémoire de DEA, Sciences du Langage, Université Lyon 2, 226 p.

Imbert, C., 2003, "Expression et métaphorisation de l’efférence dans les langues indo-européennes à satellites. Perspectives diachroniques et typologiques", Mémoire de DEA, Département d'Anglais, Université Paris IV-Sorbonne, 110 p.

Imbert, C., 2003, "Sémantique générale et sémantique particulière : hypothèse d'un universau efférence/complétude dans les langues du monde. Hypothèses sur l'existence d'un cognème *p en indo-européen", Mini-Mémoire complémentaire de DEA, Département d'Anglais, Université Paris IV-Sorbonne, 8 p.

Imbert, C., 2002, "Prepositions in English : a comparative analysis of their semantic evolution from Indo-European to contemporary English", Mémoire de Maîtrise, Département d'Anglais, Université Aix-Marseille I, 190 p.

Imbert, C. & Grinevald, C., submitted, "Twenty years of relational preverbs: a grammaticalization account", in (titre annoncé prochainement), Noonan, M. (ed), Typological Studies in Language, John Benjamins

Imbert, C., 2008, "Path coding in Old English: functional story of a typological shift", in Historical Englishes in Varieties of Texts and Contexts, Amano, M., Ogura, M. & Ohkado, M. (eds), Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang

Imbert, C., submitted, "Typology meets ancient languages. An inquiry into Homeric Greek through Amerindian languages", Unison in multiplicity: cognitive and typological perspectives on grammar and lexis, Special Issue of CogniTextes [Online Journal of the AFLiCo]:2009

Imbert, C., Grinevald, C. & Sörés, A., 2011, "Pour une catégorie de "satellite" de Trajectoire dans une approche fonctionnelle-typologique", Les Cahiers Faits de Langues, 3, pp. 99-116, ISBN 978-2-7080-1345-2

Imbert, C. & Vernhes, J.V., 2003, "Le préfixe méconnu ŭ- (<*ud) et son correspondant anglais 'out' ", O LUKHNOS (Université Aix-Marseille I), 2003:2

Imbert, C., 2009, "Multiple preverbation in Homeric Greek: What Chibchan Rama has to say", Excellence Cluster TOPOI, Research Area C-I-1, Humboldt-University, Berlin, 23 June 2009

Imbert, C., accepted, "The emergence of relational particles in English", The Society of Historical English Language and Linguistics International Conference (SHELL 2009), Hiroshima, 28-29 August 2009 [CANCELLED]

Imbert, C., accepted, "What adpositions do that satellites cannot. Semantic and conceptual constraints on Path-coding categories", Space in Language Conference, Pisa, 8-10 October 2009

Imbert, C., 2009, "Affix-order constraints in Path coding: About satellites, adpositions and the gradience of categories", Association for Linguistic Typology – 8th Biennial Meeting (ALT 8), Berkeley, 23-26 juillet 2009

Imbert, C., 2008c, "Systems dynamics and functional motivations in Path coding. Typological description of Homeric Greek and Old English. Presentation and discussion of my PhD research results.", Linguistics Colloquium, University of Oregon, Eugene, 7 October 2008

Imbert, C., 2008b, "Multiple preverbation in Homeric Greek: Affix-order constraints in Path coding", Berkeley Workshop on Affix Ordering, San Francisco, 4 October 2008

Imbert, C., 2007, "Multiple prefixation and Path Coding in Homeric Greek", Paper written for Scott deLancey, University of Oregon, Eugene, February 2007

Imbert, C., 2005---, "* Presentations for the TRAJECTORY Project (cf. infra)", Trajectory Project (CNRS - TUL)

Imbert, C., 2004, "Les Noms de Localisation Interne en turc ", Séminaire de l’équipe de recherche Description, Catégorisation et Typologie, 10 juin 2004, Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage, ISH de Lyon

Imbert, C., 2004, "Le causatif en tswana, nahuatl et amharic", Dossier pour le séminaire de l’équipe de recherche Description, Catégorisation et Typologie, 11 mars 2004, Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage, ISH de Lyon

Imbert, C., 2004, "Indo-européen: Présentation et Perspectives", Séminaire de l’équipe de recherche Evolution, 8 janvier 2004, Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage, ISH de Lyon