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 CNRS Bronze medal.

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).

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