TRAINING AND PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
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- 2020 - Currently Ph.D in Linguistics
University Lumière - Lyon 2, Dynamique Du Langage, Doctoral school 3LA
Title: Etude typologique de l'expression de la Trajectoire [Typological study of Path expression]
Directed by: Alice Vittrant (DDL-CNRS/Université Lyon 2)
- 2017 - 2019 Master's degree in Linguistics
Aix-Marseille Université
Dissertation: Grammaticalisation des verbes directionnels en thaï [Grammaticalisation of directional verbs in Thai]
Directed by: Alice Vittrant (DDL-CNRS/Aix-Marseille Université)
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| Professional background:
- September - December 2018 Tutoring
Aix-Marseille Université, Department of Linguistics
- May - September 2017 Data management
CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research)
Digitalisation, segmentation and normalisation of West African linguistic data (Pulaar, Wolof)
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RESEARCH INTERESTS
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| South-East Asia linguistic area: Tai languages, Central Thai, Shan
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| Morphosyntax: classifiers and class terms, serial verb constructions, valency and diathesis
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| Spatial domain: typology of Path, Dynamic Deixis, fictive motion |
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SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES
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| EuroSEAS 2022: Panel with Léa Mouton. Language and Society in Southeast Asia: Communities, politics, and planning .
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| Summer school Annotations, 30 May - 3 June 2022, Banyuls-sur-Mer (France). GdR LIFT. |
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| Seminar "Semantic Typology" (DDL)
- 2021: Path, Manner, Deixis : Towards a semantic typology of Motion events
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| LCT Master seminar (Aix-Marseille Université)
- 2022: Polyfonctionnalité en Asie du Sud-Est: L'emprunt dans les chemins de grammaticalisation [Polyfunctionality in South-East Asia: Loans in grammaticalization paths] (with Léa Mouton)
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| Seminar Crosslinguistic regularity in diachronic semantic change: Typology and contact in Asia (EHESS, 2022)
- Motion in Tai and (S)EA languages: Motion and Associated Motion
- Possession in Tai: Central Thai, Lao, and Dai Lü
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| Seminar Areality of polysemy and semantic change in the languages of China and South-East Asia (EHESS, 2021)
- Object-marking in Tai languages
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ADMINISTRATION ACTIVITIES
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| 2021 - Currently
Member of the Lab board |
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FIELDWORK
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| Thailand, November 2022
Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Bang Saen
Motion description in Tai languages
Central Thai, Southern Thai, Isan Thai, Kam Mueang |
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AWARDS AND RESEARCH GRANTS
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| Ph.D Scholarship 2020 - 2023 :
Projet SpOTy (Spatial Ontology and Typology)
ASLAN (Advanced Studies on LANguage complexity), Université de Lyon
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PARTICIPATION IN RESEARCH PROJECTS
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| Associated member: SALTA Project (Spatial Asymmetries across Languages: a Typological Approach)
ANR (National Research Agency)
Coordinators: Benjamin Fagard (LATTICE), Christine Lamarre (CRLAO/INALCO), Anetta Kopecka (DDL/Lyon 2), Alice Vittrant (DDL/Lyon 2)
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| Funded member : SpOTy project (Spatial Ontology and Typology)
ASLAN, Université de Lyon
Coordinators: Alice Vittrant (DDL/Lyon 2), Pierre-Antoine Champin (LIRIS)
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TEACHING
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| Contemporary French for Speaking
2022 - 2023, Winter semester
Burapha University (Thailand), Bachelor in French Studies, 4th year |
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| Syntax (tutorial class)
2021 - 2022, Spring semester
Aix-Marseille Université, Licence 2, Department of Linguistics |
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| Methodology (tutorial class)
2021 - 2022, Spring semester
Université Lumière - Lyon 2, Licence 1 ’Language & Communication’ |
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OTHER INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES
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| EuroSEAS 2022 : Support team |
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MAIN PUBLICATIONS AND CONFERENCES
SHOW LONG VERSION / SHORT VERSION
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PhDs and master thesis
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Seifen, K., 2019, "Grammaticalisation des verbes directionnels en thaï", Mémoire de Master 2, Sciences du Langage, Faculté ALLSH, Aix-Marseille Université, Aix-en-Provence
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Invited presentations
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Mouton, L. & Seifen, K., 2022, "Polyfonctionnalité en Asie du Sud-Est : l'emprunt dans les chemins de grammaticalisation", Journée d'étude « L'emprunt lexical : quoi, pourquoi, comment et avec quelles conséquences ? », Université Aix-Marseille, 19 avril 2022
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Conference presentations
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Mouton, L. & Seifen, K., 2022, "Voice constructions in Southeast Asian Languages: Thai and Black Hmong examples", SEALS 31, Hawaii, 18-20 / 06 (poster)
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Seifen, K., 2022, "La préparation des données pour une typologie et une ontologie de l’expression du déplacement", 25èmes Rencontres Jeunes Chercheurs (RJC 2022), Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, 9-10/06/2022
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Seifen, K., 2022, "A typological study of Deixis in motion description", NAMED 2022, Kyoto, 3-4/11/2022 (poster)
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Vittrant, A. & Seifen, K., 2021, "Polyfunctionality of “come” and “go” in Thai and Burmese", SEALS XXX (2021), Online, 06/2021
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Seifen, K., Vittrant, A., Song, J. & Bunkham, N., 2021, "Path and Deixis as distinct categories: Evidences from (South-)East Asian languages", SEALS XXX (2021), Online, 06/2021
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Development Neurocognition Disorders
Linguistic Diversity and its Sources
Description, Typology, Fieldwork
History and Ecology of Language and languages
karl.seifen@univ-lyon2.fr
