Nicolas Tournadre

Nicolas Tournadre is a professor at the University of Provence specializing in morphosyntax and typology. He is a member of the LACITO lab of the CNRS.

His research mainly deals with ergative morphosyntax and grammatical semantics of tense, aspect, mood and evidentiality.

N. Tournadre is a specialist of Tibetic languages. Since 1986, he has carried out fieldwork on the Tibetan High Plateau, in the Himalayas and the Karakoram in China, India, Bhutan , Nepal and Pakistan.

N. Tournadre taught at the Institute of Oriental Languages (Inalco), at the Paris 8 University, at the University of Virginia and conducted research in the Tibet Academy of Social Sciences.

He obtained his Ph.D. in 1992 at the University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle under the supervision of Claude Hagège.

In 2000, he was awarded the bronze medal of the CNRS.

He is a polyglot and has some knowledge (ranging from fluency to basic conversation) of languages belonging to 7 families (Romance, Slavic, Germanic, Tibetic, Sinitic, Indo-Iranian, Sign Language) : Russian, Polish, Ukrainian, Slovakian, English, German, Swedish, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Catalan, Hebrew, Mandarin Chinese, Standard Tibetan, Classical Tibetan, Kham, Amdo, Ladakhi, Balti, Dzongkha, Sherpa, Drejongke (or Lhoke) Hindi-Urdu, Persian, French Sign Language (LSF).

Publications

• Manual of Standard Tibetan with Sangda Dorje. (2 CDs), preface : Matthew Kapstein, Snowlion. Ithaca, New York. French Edition: Avec Sangda Dorjé, 2003, Manuel de tibétain standard, langue et civilisation (préface de Claude Hagège), Paris, L’Asiathèque « Langues et mondes », 544 p., accompagné de 2 CD; 2nde édition révisée.
• Avec Françoise Robin, Le grand livre des proverbes tibétains, Paris, Presses du Châtelet, 235 p., 2006
• L'ergativité en tibétain moderne, Peeters Publishers, 1996
• Comparaison des systèmes médiatifs de quatre dialectes tibétains (tibétain central, ladakhi, dzongkha et amdo) -- In : L'énonciation médiatisée / Z. Guentchéva (Ed.) -- Louvain : Peeters, 1996, p.195-213
• Avec Kesang Gyurmé, et Heather Stoddard Le clair miroir 1994
• Avec Lhakpa Norbu Sherpa, Gyurme Chodrak and Guillaume Oisel, 2009, Sherpa-English and English-Sherpa Dictionary, with Literary Tibetan and Nepali equivalents, 295 p. Vajra Bookstore, Kathmandu.

External links

• Nicolas Tournadre's personal website (French)

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