Françoise Ozanne-Rivierre

Françoise Ozanne-Rivierre (1941–2007) was a French linguist based at LACITO–CNRS, internationally known for her work on the languages of New Caledonia.[1]

She completed her doctorate in linguistics in 1973, with a dissertation titled Le iaai, langue mélanésienne d'Ouvéa (Nouvelle-Calédonie), at Université Paris III, where she was a student of Haudricourt and Hagège.[1] She became a member of the CNRS in 1972 and joined LACITO in 1976, where she remained until her retirement in 2006.[2]

She published extensively on several New Caledonian languages, especially Iaai; the various languages of Hienghène (Fwâi, Pije, Jawe, Nemi); Fagauvea; and Nyelâyu. She was known for her work on Austronesian comparative linguistics, in particular for the application of the comparative method to the study of Oceanic languages.[2][1]

Her husband, Jean-Claude Rivierre [fr] (1938-2018), was also a linguist working on the languages of New Caledonia.[2]

  • "† Françoise OZANNE-RIVIERRE – In memoriam". LACITO (in French). 2007-11-22. Retrieved 2023-02-11.
  • Homage to Françoise Ozanne-Rivierre and Jean-Claude Rivierre, 2020, Journal de la Société des océanistes.
  • Field recordings created by F. Ozanne-Rivierre in various languages of New Caledonia, and archived in the Pangloss Collection of CNRS.

Selected publications

  • Ozanne-Rivierre, Françoise (1976), Le Iaai : langue mélanésienne d'Ouvéa (Nouvelle-Calédonie). Phonologie, morphologie, esquisse syntaxique (in French), Paris: Société d'études linguistiques et anthropologiques de France.
  • ——— (1984), Dictionnaire iaai (in French), Paris: Société d'études linguistiques et anthropologiques de France.
  • ——— (2003), "L'aire coutumière iaai", in Cerquiligni, Bernard (ed.), Les Langues de France (in French), Paris: PUF.
  • ——— (2004), "Spatial deixis in Iaai (Loyalty Islands)", in Senft, Gunter (ed.), Spatial deixis in Oceanic languages, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.

References

  1. ^ a b c In Memoriam Françoise Ozanne-Rivierre, 2007.
  2. ^ a b c Darrell Tryon (2008). "In Memoriam, Françoise Ozanne-Rivierre, 1941–2007". Oceanic Linguistics. 47 (1): 233–239. doi:10.1353/ol.0.0005. ISSN 1527-9421. S2CID 143600952.
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