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Rebecca GROLLEMUND

• Post-Doctorante

 r.b.grollemund@reading.ac.uk

Reading web page

Teams :     LED-TDR  CLHASS 

 PRESENTATION

Since October 2012: Postdoctoral Researcher at Reading University (UK), in Mark Pagel's Evolutionary Biology Group.

 TRAINING AND PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

2012: Ph.D in Linguistics, Université Lumière Lyon 2. Title: "Nouvelles approches en classification : Application aux langues bantu du Nord-Ouest", supervisor Jean-Marie Hombert.

2006: Master in Linguistics, Université Lumière Lyon 2. Title: "Les Okande du Gabon, locuteurs d'une langue en danger (langue bantu du groupe B30)", supervisor Lolke van der Veen.

 RESEARCH INTERESTS

Historical linguistic

Bantu

Classification

Phylogenetics

 SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES

Map making: design of 52 ethno-linguistic maps for the 52 speech communities living in Gabon

Webmaster (with Hadrien Gelas and Jean-Marie Hombert) of the website CLHASS (Contribution de la Linguistique à l'Histoire de l'Afrique Sub-Saharienne): http://www.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/clhass/

Work on Grassfields languages (with Jean-Marie Hombert and Larry Hyman)

Conception of a database on plant names of Gabon (based on the book of A. Raponda-Walker « Les plantes utiles du Gabon » (September 2009)

Work on data for the projects CLHASS (Contribution de la Linguistique à l'Histoire de l'Afrique Sub-Saharienne) and ALGAB (Atlas Linguistique du GABon)

 FIELDWORK

June-August 2008: Fieldwork in Gabon, data collected for gepinzi(Bantu language, B30)

July-August 2007: Fieldwork in Gabon, data collected in Gepinzi (B30) and Galwa (B10) (Bantu languages)

July-August 2006: Fieldwork in Gabon, data collected in Simba and Gepinzi (Bantu languages, B30)

July-August 2005: Fieldwork in Gabon, data collected in Kande (Bantu languages, B30)

 PARTICIPATION IN RESEARCH PROJECTS

Member of the RefLex project (Guillaume Segerer), http://reflex.cnrs.fr/

Member of the Northern Grassfields Study Group

 TEACHING

2008-2009 : Teacher of Literature

2006-2007 : Teaching Assistant in Linguistics. Lyon 2 University (Lyon, France). Courses Taught: General linguistics and French Linguistics.

2006-2007 : Teaching Assistant in Linguistics Lyon 2 University (Lyon, France). Courses Taught: General linguistics and French Linguistics.

Grollemund, R., 2012, "Nouvelles approches en classification : Application aux langues bantu du Nord-Ouest", Thèse, Sciences du Langage, Université Lumière Lyon 2, 550 p. (pdf)

Grollemund, R., 2006, "Esquisse d'une étude diachronique du groupe "Okani Nord" (B30 Nord)", Rapport de Master 2, rapport de Master 2, Sciences du Langage, Université Lumière Lyon 2, Lyon, 39 p.  (pdf)

Grollemund, R., 2006, "Les Okande du Gabon, locuteurs d'une langue en danger (langue bantu du groupe B 30). Langue et culture", Mémoire de Master 2, Sciences du Langage, Université Lumière Lyon 2, Lyon, 249 p.  (pdf)

Grollemund, R., 2006, "Esquisse d'une étude diachronique du groupe Okani Nord (B 30 Nord)", Rapport de Master 2, Sciences du Langage, Université Lumière Lyon 2, Lyon , 39 p.  (pdf)

Grollemund, R., 2005, "Esquisse de description de l'okande - Langue bantu du groupe B 30", Mémoire de Master 1, Mémoire de Master 1, Sciences du Langage, Université Lumière Lyon 2, Lyon, 49 p.

Grollemund, R. & Hombert, J.M., 2011, "Use of Plant Names for the Classification of the Bantu Languages of Gabon", in Selected Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference on African Linguistics, Connell, B. & Rolle, N. (eds), Somerville, MA, Cascadilla Proceedings Project, pp. 150-163 (pdf)

Grollemund, R. & Hombert, J.M., 2012, "Linguistic Classification and population movements in the North Western part of the Equatorial forest", Colloque ‘The impact of a major environmental crisis on species, populations and communities: the fragmentation of African forests at the end of the Holocene’, Académie des Sciences, Paris, 1-2 mars 2012

Bostoen, K., Clist, B.O., Grollemund, R. & Maley, J., 2012, "Impact of late holocene palaeoclimatic changes on the Bantu expansion", 7th International Workshop for African Archaeobotany, Vienna, Austria, 2-5 July 2012

Grollemund, R. & Hombert, J.M., 2012, "Sorting out the position of Bantu languages in Bantoid", World Congress of African Linguistics 7 (Wocal 7), Buea, Cameroun, 20-24 août 2012

Hombert, J.M. & Grollemund, R., 2012, "Development of Bantu specialized lexicon", World Congress of African Linguistics 7 (Wocal 7) , Buea, Cameroun, 20-24 août 2012

Hombert, J.M., Grollemund, R. & Franc, A., 2012, "Proto-Bantu: Before and After", Proto-Niger-Congo: Comparison and Reconstruction, International Congress, Paris, 18-21 September 2012