Meet The Researchers

Giovanni Bennardo

I am a Board of Trustees and Distinguished Research Professor in Linguistic and Cognitive Anthropology at Northern Illinois University.

My main interest is the relationship between language and cognition. In the last 25 years, I have conducted extensive research about Tongan, a Polynesian language, from the linguistic and cognitive representations of spatial relationships to cultural models of Nature.

Contact me at: bennardo@niu.edu

Web page:

https://www.niu.edu/bennardo/index.shtml

Claire Moyse-Faurie

I am an Emeritus Director of research at LACITO, CNRS

My research interest is the description of the languages of New Caledonia and of Wallis and Futuna.

I focus on sintactic typology, lexical categorization and nominalization.

Contact me at: claire.moyse@cnrs.fr

Mary Walworth

I am a Researcher within the CNRS in France, at the Centre de recherches linguistiques sur l'Asie orientale (CRLAO).

My research focuses on the evolution and interaction of Austronesian languages, specifically in Oceania. Through language documentation and comparison of many understudied languages in these areas, I work to uncover not only historical linguistic relationships but also historical relationships between the speakers of these languages.

Contact me at: mary-elizabeth.walworth@cnrs.fr