Claire Moyse-Faurie Explained

Claire Moyse-Faurie (born 7 October 1949)^[1] is a French linguist specializing in Oceanic languages, in particular the languages of Wallis and Futuna and of New Caledonia.

Education, career and honours

Moyse-Faurie studied with the linguist André-Georges Haudricourt.^[2] After many years working at LACITO (CNRS) from 1980 onwards, including serving as its deputy director from 1992 to 1995, Moyse-Faurie became emeritus director of research at Lattice in 2021.^{[3] [4] [5]} She held a visiting position as professor at the University of New Caledonia in 2004, 2005, 2013, 2014 and 2015.^[4]

Moyse-Faurie was appointed Member of the Academia Europaea in 2016.^[6] She also served as President of the Société de Linguistique de Paris in 2012.^{[4] [7]}

Research

Alongside descriptive studies of Oceanic languages (Drehu, Xârâcùù, Xârâgurè, West Uvean, Haméa, East Futunan, East Uvean), Moyse-Faurie has worked on linguistic topics such as valency, nominalization, reflexives, reciprocals, grammaticalization, and linguistic typology.^[6] In 1982 she proposed an orthography for this language, which has subsequently been used in teaching; she also published a dictionary of Xârâcùù together with Marie-Adèle Néchérö-Jorédié in 1986.^[2]

Selected publications

• Moyse-Faurie, Claire, & Marie-Adèle Néchérö-Jorédié. 1986. Dictionnaire Xârâcùù-Français (Nouvelle-Calédonie). Leuven: Peeters.
• Moyse-Faurie, Claire. 1993. Dictionnaire futunien-français: avec index français-futunien. Leuven: Peeters.
• Moyse-Faurie, Claire, & John Lynch. 2004. Coordination in Oceanic languages and Proto-Oceanic. In Martin Haspelmath (ed.), Coordinating constructions, 445–497. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
• Kayser, Manfred, Silke Brauer, Richard Cordaux, Amanda Casto, Oscar Lao, Lev A. Zhivotovsky, Claire Moyse-Faurie, Robb B. Rutledge, Wulf Schiefenhoevel, David Gil, Alice A. Lin, Peter A. Underhill, Peter J. Oefner, Ronald J. Trent, & Mark Stoneking. 2006. Melanesian and Asian origins of Polynesians: mtDNA and Y chromosome gradients across the Pacific. Molecular Biology and Evolution 23 (11), 2234–2244.
• Moyse-Faurie, Claire. 2008. Constructions expressing middle, reflexive and reciprocal situations in some Oceanic languages. In Ekkehard König & Volker Gast (eds.), Reciprocals and Reflexives: Theoretical and Typological Explorations, 105–168. Berlin: De Gruyter.

Notes and References

1. Web site: BnF Catalogue général. 29 July 2023. BnF Catalogue général. fr-FR.
2. Blust . Robert . 1990 . Review of Dictionnaire Xârâcùù-Français (Nouvelle-Calédonie) by Claire Moyse-Faurie and Marie-Adèle Néchérö-Jorédié . Language . 66 . 1 . 201–202 . 10.1353/lan.1990.0025 . 143367990 . 29 July 2023.
3. Web site: Claire MOYSE-FAURIE . 29 July 2023. lacito.cnrs.fr. fr-FR.
4. Web site: Claire Moyse-Faurie - Curriculum Vitae. 29 July 2023. Academia Europaea. en-GB.
5. Web site: Claire MOYSE-FAURIE. 29 July 2023. lattice.cnrs.fr. fr-FR.
6. Web site: Claire Moyse-Faurie. 29 July 2023. Academia Europaea. en-GB.
7. Web site: Présidents et secrétaires. 29 July 2023. Société de Linguistique de Paris. fr-FR.