Alexandre François
Alexandre François | |
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Alexandre François (right) meeting with Maten Womal, the last storyteller in the Olrat language (Gaua, Vanuatu, 2003) | |
| Occupation | Linguist |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | CNRS |
| Main interests | Oceanic languages |
| Notable ideas | Colexification |
Alexandre François is a French linguist specialising in the description and study of the indigenous languages of Melanesia. He belongs to Lattice, a research centre of the CNRS and École Normale Supérieure dedicated to linguistics.