Robert Nicolaï

Robert Nicolaï (born February 5, 1945 in Toulon ) is a French professor of linguistics and an internationally renowned specialist in African languages , especially Songhai languages . He teaches at the University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis . Nicolaï is the founder and co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Language Contact .

After several years in Niger , where he founded the Department of Linguistics at the Abdou Moumouni University in Niamey in 1975 , he headed the “Institute for Interethnic and Intercultural Studies” (Institut d'études et de recherches interethniques et interculturelles) at the from 1984 to 1988 University of Nice . Since 1988 he has been a member of the Center national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in various functions . He was a guest at the Universities of Frankfurt am Main (1997–1998) and Vienna (2004–2005) and at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig in 2005.

Honors

In 1997 Nicolaï was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation's research prize ( Gay Lussac Humboldt Prize ) and in 2004 was appointed to the Institut universitaire de France .

Web links

• Literature by and about Robert Nicolaï in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
• Robert Nicolaï: Eléments biographiques
• Journal of Language Contact

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See Rethinking Contact Induced Change  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Leiden University Center for Linguistics.