Meet Isabelle Bril, specialist in Austronesian languages (LACITO)
The "Portraits of Researchers in Area Studies" (PEA) collection is a series of large-format interviews produced by Inalco as part of the Digital Paris Research School of Area Studies (D-PaRSAS) institutional project. Deposited on the MediHal open archive, this series of portraits joins a set of collections on the Language and Cultural Area Studies (LaCAS) platform. These collections aim to build up a living, freely accessible scientific heritage of research on the world's languages, societies and cultures.
Large-format portrait
Video : Austronesian languages. An interview with Isabelle Bril (CNRS)
An interview conducted by Bastien Sepúlveda, in charge of Digital Humanities (DIRVED, Inalco), directed by Dimitri Galitzine, produced by Inalco (20/12/2023, 1h 18 mn).
Podcast:
Isabelle Bril, director of research emeritus at the Laboratory of Languages and Civilizations with an Oral Tradition (LACITO-CNRS) and director of studies emeritus at the École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), recounts, in this interview her experiences in the field and the resulting cross-fertilization of ideas.
Specializing in Austronesian languages, more specifically the Oceanic languages of New Caledonia (Kanak languages), as well as one of the Austronesian languages spoken in Taiwan, the Amis language, her research is based on linguistic field surveys. The study of these languages focuses on their lexicon, syntax and evolutionary facts; their analysis is approached from synchronic, diachronic and typological angles.
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His works:
Thematic and alphabetical dictionary of the Yuanga-Zuanga language (New Caledonia), with phonological analysis and grammatical sketch (2022, Lexica series, Pangloss, CNRS); Nêlêmwa (New Caledonia): Analyse syntaxique et sémantique (2002, coll. Langues et Cultures du Pacifique n° 16, Paris, Peeters, 535 p.); Dictionnaire nêlêmwa-nixumwak-français-anglais (2000, coll. Langues et Cultures du Pacifique n° 14, Paris, Peeters, SELAF 378, 530 p.).