Arnaud Arslangul

Dr. Arnaud Arslangul is a researcher at INALCO (National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations) and a statutory member of the CRLAO (Center for Linguistic Research on East Asia, CNRS-EHESS-INALCO). His work focuses on foreign language acquisition (particularly Mandarin Chinese) through functional linguistics and psycholinguistics, examining spatial event conceptualization and discourse-level spatial reference.

• Research Themes: Causality expression in Chinese L2, translinguistic cognitive models, open-access corpus creation.
• Projects: Collaborator in the LANGACROSS_2 project (CNRS & Max Planck Institute) studying spatial events in Chinese.
• Publications: Authored/edited Chinese pedagogical resources and monographs on spatial linguistics.
• Collective Roles: Master’s program coordinator for Chinese studies, language proficiency examiner, and curriculum advisor.

Conferences: Presented at EACS XIX (2012) and CAPES-related events on Chinese acquisition and spatial grammar.