Research and projects

I am working on a number of topics, including the following:

• inflection classes: my D. Phil. was about their creation in the languages of the world

• suppletion, which was the topic of my postdoctoral fellowship

• gender

• feature theory

• periphrasis

• numerals

My work is often typological in nature, but I also concentrate on specific language areas:

• the Romance languages, in particular Occitan and the Oïl varieties, including the historical morphology of French

• Austronesian languages, particularly belonging to the South-Halmahera-West-New Guinea family

• recently I am getting more interested by the Celtic languages, in particular Breton and Cornish

I am a member of the following research programmes:

• ViGramm (SOSI InSHS CNRS, 2023-) "Visualizing grammars across space and time" (PI: Diego Pescarini, Nice; Anne Dagnac, Toulouse; Stella Retali-Medori, Corte). The initial meeting of the project was a Workshop on Reinventing linguistic atlases. Old data, current methods, future questions in Nice, 16 November 2023.

• Chartes d'Occitanie, a project aiming at producing a database of medieval charters from the southern French area, in particular in the Occitan language, but also in Latin and French. (PI: Roland Viader, Toulouse)

• DIVITAL (ANR 2022-25) "Increase the DIgital VITALity and visibility of languages of France: linguistic descriptions and annotated corpora" (PI: Delphine Bernhard, Strasbourg; Myriam Bras, Toulouse; Stella Retali-Medori, Corte; Marianne Vergez-Couret, Poitiers) 

• ComPLETE project (ANR-DFG, 2022-25) "Complex Predicates in Languages: Emergence, Typology, Evolution" (PI: Martine Vanhove, Paris; Alexandre François, Paris; Walter Bisang, Mainz; Andrej Malchukov, Mainz)

I organised the following conferences and workshops:

• 9en Obrador de Linguistica Occitana, Toulouse, 12-13 June 2025 (with Myriam Bras, Jean Sibille and Rafèu Sichel-Bazin)

• Workshop Le futur dans les langues romanes et les langues des Balkans, Toulouse, 27 mars 2025 (with Fabio del Prete)

• Workshop Grammatical gender and ‘natural’ gender: Mappings and mismatches, Berlin, 1-2 June 2023 (with Sascha Gaglia and Louise Esher)

• Workshop Comparative and dialectal approaches to inflectional analogy, Oxford, 23-24 June 2022 (with Louise Esher and Sascha Gaglia)