Olivier Bonami
Enseignant-chercheur
Status : Professor, Université Paris Cité
Address :
LLF – UMR 7110
Université Paris Cité
Case 7031 – 5, rue Thomas Mann,
75205 Paris cedex 13
Phone number : +33 1 57 27 57 97
E-mail : byvivre.obanzv@h-cnevf.se
General presentation
Research interests
- Inflectional and derivational morphology
- Quantitative approaches to morphology
- Formal approaches to phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics
- Lexicon and grammar of Creole languages
- French grammar
Research projects
- ANR project Demonext (2018-2022)
- International research network (GDRI) The Structure, Emergence and Evolution of Pidgin and Creole Languages (2012-2020)
- Grande grammaire du français
- Labex Empirical Foundations of Linguistics
PhD supervisions
2010-2013: Géraldine Walther (jointly with Anne Abeillé)
2014-2018: Sacha Beniamine
2018-2022: Suzanne Lesage
From 2019: Maria Copot
Bibliography
My full list of publications and presentations is here.
Recent publications
In press
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Beniamine, Sacha, and Olivier Bonami. "Inflection class systems." In Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Morphology, edited by Peter Ackema, Sabrina Bendjaballah, Eulàlia Bonet and Antonio Fàbregas. Wiley-Blackwell, Sous presse.
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Bonami, Olivier, and Matías Guzman Naranjo. "Distributional evidence for derivational paradigms." In The semantics of derivational morphology: theory, methods, evidence, edited by Sven Kotowski and Ingo Plag. Berlin: De Gruyter, Sous presse. (preprint)
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Naranjo, Matías Guzmán, and Olivier Bonami. "A distributional assessment of rivalry in word formation." Word Structure 16, sous presse. (preprint)
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2022
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Bonami, Olivier, and Matteo Pellegrini. "Derivation predicting inflection: A quantitative study of the influence of derivational history on inflectional behavior in Latin." Studies in Language 46, no. 4 (2022): 753-792. (link)
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Copot, Maria, Timothee Mickus, and Olivier Bonami. "Idiosyncratic Frequency as a Measure of Derivation vs. Inflection." Journal of Language Modelling 10(2). (preprint)
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Juniarta, Nyoman, Olivier Bonami, Nabil Hathout, Fiammetta Namer, and Yannick Toussaint. Organizing and Improving a Database of French Word Formation Using Formal Concept Analysis In Proceedings of the 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2022)., 2022. (link)
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Lesage, Suzanne, and Olivier Bonami. "Symmetric but non-complementary: Gradient paradigmatic opposition in binding." In Empirical Issues in Syntax and Semantics 14, edited by Gabriela Bilbiie, Berthold Crysmann and Gerhard Schaden., Sous presse. (link)
2021
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Anselme, Rémi, Olivier Bonami, and Heather Burnett. "Polysémie et troncation des noms en -ion en français." Verbum XLIII (2021): 97-118. (preprint)
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Beniamine, Sacha, Olivier Bonami, and Ana R. Luís. "The fine implicative structure of European Portuguese conjugation." Isogloss 7 (2021). (link)
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Bonami, Olivier, and Sacha Beniamine. "Leaving the stem by itself." In All Things Morphology, edited by Marcia Haag, Sedigheh Moradi, Andrija Petrovic and Janie Rees-Miller, 82-98. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2021. (preprint)
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Bonami, Olivier, and Delphine Tribout. Echantinom: a hand-annotated morphological lexicon of French nouns In Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Resources and Tools for Derivational Morphology, Edited by Fiammetta Namer, Nabil Hathout, Stéphanie Lignon, Magda Ševčíková and Zdeněk Žabokrtský., 2021. (link)
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Bonami, Olivier, and Gert Webelhuth. "Periphrasis and morphosyntatic mismatch in Czech." In One-to-many relations in morphology, syntax and semantics, edited by Berthold Crysmann and Manfred Sailer, 85-115. Berlin: Language Science Press, 2021. (link)
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Calderone, Basilio, Olivier Bonami, and Nabil Hathout. Not quite there yet: Combining analogical patterns and encoder-decoder networks for cognitively plausible inflection In Proceedings of the 18th SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology., 2021. (link)
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Lesage, Suzanne, and Olivier Bonami. "Forces et faiblesses des contraintes de liage : une comparaison expérimentale multilingue des possessifs réfléchis et des possessifs emphatiques." Langages 223 (2021): 103-123. (link)
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Naranjo, Matías Guzmán, and Olivier Bonami. "Overabundance and inflectional classification: Quantitative evidence from Czech." Glossa 6 (2021). (link)
2020
- Constraint-based Syntax and Semantics. Papers in Honor of Danièle Godard, Edited by Anne Abeillé and Olivier Bonami. Stanford: CSLI Publications, 2020.
2019
- Bonami, Olivier, and Gilles Boyé. "Paradigm uniformity and the French gender system." In Perspectives on morphology: Papers in honour of Greville G. Corbett, edited by Matthew Baerman, Oliver Bond and Andrew Hippisley, 171-192. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019.
PDF (702.52 Ko) - Bonami, Olivier, and Jana Strnadová. "Paradigm structure and predictability in derivational morphology." Morphology28, no 2 (2019), 167-197. (lien)
- Bonami, Olivier, and Juliette Thuilier. "A statistical approach to affix rivalry: {French} -iser and -ifier." Word Structure 12, no 1 (2019), 4-41. PDF (317.6 Ko)
- Burnett, Heather, and Olivier Bonami. "Linguistic Prescription, Ideological Structure and the Actuation of Linguistic Changes: Grammatical Gender in French Parliamentary Debates." Language in Society 49, no 1 (2019), 65-93. PDF (446.67 Ko)
- Burnett, Heather, and Olivier Bonami. A Conceptual Spaces Model of Socially Motivated Language Change In Proceedings of the 2nd Meeting of the Society for Computation in Linguistics. (link)
- Lesage, Suzanne, and Olivier Bonami. Gradient constraints on the use of Estonian possessive reflexives In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Quantitative Syntax (Quasy, SyntaxFest 2019). Paris, France: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2019. (link)
- Mickus, Timothee, Olivier Bonami, and Denis Paperno. Distributional Effects of Gender Contrasts Across Categories In Proceedings of the 2nd Meeting of the Society for Computation in Linguistics. (link)
- Namer, Fiammetta, Lucie Barque, Olivier Bonami, Pauline Haas, Nabil Hathout, and Delphine Tribout. Demonette2 – A large scale derivational database for French: first results In TALN. Toulouse, France, 2019. (link)
- Webelhuth, Gert, and Olivier Bonami. Syntactic haplology and the Dutch proform "er" In Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, University of Bucharest, Edited by Stefan Müller and Petya Osenova. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications, 2019. (link)
2018
- Bonami, Olivier, and Berthold Crysmann. "Lexeme and flexeme in a formal theory of grammar." In The Lexeme in Descriptive and Theoretical Morphology, edited by Olivier Bonami, Gilles Boyé, Georgette Dal, Hélène Giraudo and Fiammetta Namer, 175-202. Berlin: Language Science Press, 2018. (link)
- Bonami, Olivier, and Denis Paperno. "Inflection vs. derivation in a distributional vector space." Lingue e Linguaggio 17 no. 2 (2018), 173-195. PDF (634.7 Ko)
- Henri, Fabiola, and Olivier Bonami. "Prédire l'agglutination de l'article en mauricien." Faits de langue 49, no. 1 (2018): 113-138. PDF (1.4 Mo)
2017
- Abeillé, Anne, Olivier Bonami, Danièle Godard, and M. Noailly. "Adjectives and adverbs in the grande grammaire du français." In The interface of adjectives and adverbs in Romance . M. Hummel, S. Valera ed. J. Benjamins, 2017.
- Ackerman, Farrell, and Olivier Bonami. "Systemic polyfunctionality and morphology-syntax interdependencies." In Defaults in Morphological Theory, edited by Andrew Hippisley and Nikolas Gisborne, 233-268. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. PDF (178.39 Ko)
- Beniamine, Sacha, Olivier Bonami, and Benoît Sagot. "Inferring Inflection Classes with Description Length." Journal of Language Modelling 5, no. 3 (2017): 465-525.
- Crysmann, Berthold, and Olivier Bonami. Atomistic and holistic exponence in Underspecified Realisational Morphology In 24th International Conference on Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Edited by Stefan Müller. Stanford: CSLI Publications, 2017 PDF.
2016
- Bonami, Olivier, and Sacha Beniamine. "Joint predictiveness in inflectional paradigms." Word Structure 9, no. 2 (2016): 156-182. PDF (341.78 Ko)
- Bonami, Olivier, Robert D. Borsley, and Maggie Tallerman. On Pseudo-Non-Finite Clauses in Welsh In Proceedings of the HeadLex 2016 Conference. Stanford: CSLI Publications, 2016.
- Bonami, Olivier, and Berthold Crysmann. "The role of morphology in constraint-based lexicalist grammars." In Cambridge Handbook of Morphology, edited by Andrew Hippisley and Gregory T. Stump, 609-656. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. PDF (335.18 Ko)
- Bonami, Olivier, and Gregory T. Stump. "Paradigm Function Morphology." In Cambridge Handbook of Morphology, edited by Andrew Hippisley and Gregory T. Stump, 449-481. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. PDF (362.26 Ko)
- Crysmann, Berthold, and Olivier Bonami. "Variable morphotactics in Information-Based Morphology." Journal of Linguistics 52 (2016): 311-374. PDF (455.39 Ko)
2015
- Bonami, Olivier, and Sacha Beniamine. Implicative structure and joint predictiveness In Word Structure and Word Usage. Proceedings of the NetWordS Final Conference, Edited by Vito Pirelli, Claudia Marzi and Marcello Ferro., 2015. PDF
- Bonami, Olivier, and Pollet Samvelian. "The diversity of Inflectional Periphrasis in Persian." Journal of Linguistics 51 (2015). PDF (344.89 Ko)
- Bonami, Olivier. "Periphrasis as collocation." Morphology 25 (2015): 63-110. PDF (363.82 Ko)
- Bonami, Olivier, and Ana R. Luís. "Sur la morphologie implicative dans la conjugaison du portugais : une étude quantitative." In Mémoires de la Société de Linguistique de Paris, 111-151. Vol. 22., 2015. PDF (2.85 Mo)
Selected unpublished talks
- Beniamine, Sacha, and Olivier Bonami. Segmentation in morphology: wh-en, wh-ere, how? In 4th American International Morphology Meeting. Stony Brook, 2019. segmentation.pdf (985.78 Ko)
- Bonami, Olivier, and Berthold Crysmann. Capturing generalizations about exponence In 12th Mediterranean Morphology Meeting. Ljubljana, 2019. mmm2019-v2.pdf
- Bonami, Olivier, Matías Guzman Naranjo, and Delphine Tribout. The role of morphology in gender assignment in French. In 2nd International Symposium on Morphology (ISMO 2019). Paris, 2019. main.pdf (137.58 Ko)
- Bonami, Olivier. Quantitative evidence for paradigm structure In 18th International Morphology Meeting. Budapest, 2018. PDF (1.62 Mo)
- Beniamine, Sacha, Olivier Bonami, and Joyce McDonough. When segmentation helps. Implicative structure and morph boundaries in the Navajo verb In First International Symposium on Morphology. Université de Lille, 2017.
- Bonami, Olivier. Predictability in inflection and word formation In ParadigMo 2017: First Workshop on Paradigmatic Word Formation Modeling., 2017. PDF (251.77 Ko)
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