Stéphane Robert

Stéphane Robert is a Research Professor and Director of Research 1st class at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), working at the Language, languages and cultures of Subsaharian Africa (LLACAN) laboratory. He has been with CNRS since 1992, becoming Director of Research in 1998 and achieving 1st class status in 2009.

His educational background includes:

• 1996: Habilitation in Linguistics, University Paris 7
• 1989: PhD in Theoretical Linguistics, University Paris 7
• 1985: MA in African Linguistics, University Paris 3
• 1984: M2 in Theoretical linguistics, University Paris 7; BA in African Linguistics, University Paris 3
• 1983: Agrégation de grammaire
• 1982: BA in Indian Studies (Sanskrit), University Paris 3
• 1981: MA in Classic Studies (Ancient Greek), University Paris 4
• 1980-1985: Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris)

Dr. Robert's research focuses on African linguistics, particularly Atlantic languages, information structure and its interfaces, general semantics, grammaticalization and morphosyntactic categories, cognitive linguistics, typology, language in cognitive sciences, corpus annotation for poorly documented languages, theoretical linguistics, and TAM (tense, aspect and modality) and spatial deixis. His work bridges theoretical linguistics with cognitive science and has significant implications for understanding language diversity and evolution.

His scientific awards include:

• 2013: Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur
• 2012: Elected Corresponding Member of the Royal Academy of Belgium for Overseas Sciences (Section of Human Sciences)
• 1994: CNRS Bronze medal for linguistics

Dr. Robert has secured significant research funding including the H2020 "DReaM" project (2018-2020), ANR's "Sénélangues" project (2009-2014), and multiple contracts for the "Langues de France" database. He serves on the editorial board of the Belgian Journal of Linguistics and regularly peer-reviews for numerous linguistic journals.