Patrick Caudal

Chercheur CNRS

0000-0002-0003-3780

Status : DR2, LLF & Université Paris-Cité

Address :

LLF, CNRS – UMR 7110
Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7
Case 7031 – 5, rue Thomas Mann,
75205 Paris cedex 13

Phone number : +33 1 57 27 57 84

E-mail : cngevpx.pnhqny@paef.se

Resume : Patrick Caudal_en.pdf (188 Ko)

Axis :
  Corpus, description et terrain

General presentation

Research interests

A. Lexicon, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics of Australian languages (Iwaidja, Anindhilyakwa, Murrinh-Patha, Jaminjung, Mawng,  Dalabon, Nyamal, Mparntwe Arrernte, Panyjima, Martuthunira)

A.1 Descriptive, experimental and formal approaches to tense, aspect, modality and evidentiality (TAME) in Australian languages, especially Iwaidja (with R. Mailhammer, U.Western Sydney), Anindhilyakwa (with J. Bednall, A.N.U.), Murrinh-patha (with R. Nordlinger, U. Melbourne), Jaminjung (with E. Schultze-Berndt, U. Manchester) and Mparntwe Arrernte (with D. Moore, U.WA.). Experimental elicitation of event descriptions.

A.2 Typological study of TAME systems of Australian languages (especially complex, composite markings combining aspectuo-temporal and modal exponents)

A.3 Associated motion and associated posture (in particular non-Pama-Nyungan languages) ; TUL project with Marine Vuillermet (U. Lyon II, DDL) on the typology of associated motion/posture ; collaborative work with R. Mailhammer (UWS) and J. Bednall (ANU) on associated motion/posture in Iwaidjan and Gunwinyguan languages

B. Fieldwork methodology for the study of tense/aspect/modality/evidentiality in underdescribed and endangered languages

B.1 Experimental fieldwork methods for the description of TAME categories – Australian languages and sub-standard varieties of Breton ; constitution of elicitation-oriented visual databases ; elaboration of mixed fieldwork methods for the elicitation of event descriptions on the basis of visual stimuli

B.2 Developping field questionnaires for the tense/aspect and tense-aspect/modality

C. Diachrony and typology of inflectional TAME marking : lexification, grammaticalization and conventionalization of TAME markers / uses of TAME markers (Romance, Germanic, Slavic and Australian languages)

C.1 Quantitative study of tense, aspect and modality in Old and Middle French (11th  -15th  centuries) – synthetic tenses (passé simple) and periphrastic/analytic tenses (passé composé, plus-que-parfait, passé antérieur and verbal periphrases) ; computational diachrony of French (with B. Crabbé, U. Paris-Diderot and M. Troberg, U. Ottawa)

C.2 Diachrony and comparison of TAME marking for structures with modal meanings -  Romance, Germanic, Slavic and (especially non-Pama-Nyungan) Australian languages ; morpho-syntax and semantics of modal constructions (hypothetical, epistemic, deontic, predictive) with one or mor inflectional TAME marking (cf. Romance imperfects/futures/conditions, irrealis+potential/past+present in non-Pama-Nyungan languages).

C. 3 Inflectional lexical classes for French : morphology and semantics of 2nd group verbs in French ; diachronic and synchronic quantitative approach.

D. Formal semantics and pragmatics

D.1 Tense, aspect, modality and evidentiality: interfaces (semantics/pragmatics, morphology/semantics).

D.2 Semantics of scalarity, quantification, and plurality: verbal derivation in Romance and Australian languages ; semantics of reduplication and antipassives in Australian languages.

D.3 Discourse semantics and pragmatics : a formal study of oral narratives

Research projects

March 2023–

Coordinator of Action Défis sociétaux Labex EFL project VALOTOTA (Valorisation des langues et traditions orales de la Terre d’Arnhem) (budget: 10k€)

June 2022

Co-organizer of CNRS thematic school Conditionals 2 (budget : 21k€)

Nov. 2021–

Coordinator with A. Falaise, LLF of AustrILS atlas project (Australian Indigenous Language Structures (budget: 6k€)

2021-2026

Coordinator with B. Baker, U. Melbourne of IRP CNRS FEMIDAL research network (France/Australia/Europe) (budget: 70k€)

2023–

Coordinator of AMI Idex Université de Paris CELINAC outreach project (« Co-Etude d’une Langue INdigène Australienne en contexte Culturel ») (UPC, Western Sydney U. and Minjilang comminity, N.T., Australia) (budget: 66,5k €) (transferred to WSU, 2023)

2020–

Coordinator with R. Mailhammer (W.S.U.) of outreach projects on Iwaidja : W. Sydney U Partnership Grant and Oral Narratives in Iwaidja Labex EFL project (budget: 20k€)

2020-2024

Coordinator of subprojects GL3 (Associated Motion and Posture) in strand 3 and of subproject MEQTAME (Méthodes Quantitatives dans l’étude du TAME), strand 2 of Labex Empirical Foundations of Linguistics (budget: 12k€ per year)

2018-2019

Coordinator of CNRS SMI project « Morphological and semantic complexity of modality in Iwaidja » ; collaboration with R. Mailhammer (Western Sydney U.) (19k€)

2017-2018

Coordinator of EvEs « Events & Space » project, Fédération de Typologie (FRE 2559) (budget  4.5k€)

2011-2019

Coordinator of strand 3 (GD 4) and strand 7 (EM3a) subprojects at the Labex EFL budget: 12k€ per year)

2014-2015

Coordinator of CNRS/U. Melbourne project ECHIDNA (Event descriptions and CoHerence In Discourse: an experimental approach to Narratives) (budget: 10k€)

2009-2013

Coordinator of IRSES Marie-Curie project TAMEAL « The interrelation of Tense, Aspect and Modality with Evidentiality in Australian Aboriginal languages » (Grant Agreement PIRSES-GA-2008-230818-TAMEAL) (budget: 126k€)

2008

Coordinator of DRI CNRS #211339 project Formal treatment of aspectual, temporal and modal phenomena in two aboriginal languages of the North West of Australia: Martuthunira and Panyjima (budget: 18k€)

Teaching

2025–

U. Paris-Cité : Corpus linguistics (L3)

2023–

U. Paris-Cité : Introduction to semantics & pragmatics (M1)

Depuis 2022

U. Paris-Sorbonne : Introduction to linguistics (L1)

2021–

U. Paris-Cité :  Spoken corpora : producing oral corpora in field conditions (M1/M2)

2013-2023

U. Paris-Cité : Non-Indo-European Linguistics (L3/M1/M2)

2021-2022

U. Paris-Cité : Field Methods (M1/M2)

2015-2018

EHESS : Semantics of tense & aspect

2014-2015

U. Paris-4 Sorbonne : Semantics (M1/2).

2002-2008

U. Paris-8 Saint-Denis : Introduction to linguistics (L1), semantics (L3)

1999-2001

Full time Lecturer at U. La Rochelle, FLASH : English; linguistics (L1-L3, M1)

1999

Part time lecturer at U. Paris 7 : Semantics (L); English (L)

PhD supervisions

Oct. 2021 –

Marie Legentil, Système verbal et description d’événement en rembarrnga (alloc. ED622) (6h/mois) (co-supervision with Maïa Ponsonnet, DDL, Lyon 2)

2020-2024

David Felipe Guerrero-Beltran, The TAME verbal system of Gu-jingaliya. (cotutelle with U. Melbourne / Brett Baker) [defended at UPC on 06/09/2024]

2019-2024

Beatrice Pahontu (U. Paris/U. Bucarest) – Les périphrases progressives dans les langues romanes (cotutelle with U. Bucarest / D. Dobre) [defended at UPC on 17/06/2024]

2015-2020

James Bednall (ANU/U. Paris-Diderot) – Temporal, aspectual and modal expression in Anindilyakwa. Co-tutelle ANU/U. Paris-Diderot. [defended at ANU on 13/02/2020]