Isabelle Bril
Biographic Data
| ID | 5900893 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Isabelle Bril |
| GIVEN NAMES | Isabelle |
| FAMILY NAME | Bril |
| SIGNATURE | BRIL I |
| AFFILIATIONS | lacito-CNRS, Fédération “Typologie et Universaux Linguistiques” |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4582-9755 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Adversative and experiential applicative constructions in Northern Amis (Austronesian)
Experiential constructions is an understudied topic in western Austronesian languages. The focus is on Northern Amis (Formosan), with some crosslinguistic comparison. In Amis, experiential constructions are derived by a syncretic suffix – en , which is also an Undergoer Voice suffix. In experiential constructions, – en is suffixed to stative-intransitive verbs compatible with experiences, and functions as an applicative voice that licenses an ext…
Categorizing possession in Zuanga-Yuanga and other Kanak languages (New Caledonia)
Like many other Oceanic and Kanak languages of New Caledonia, Zuanga-Yuanga [ZY] has classifiers restricted to the possession of nouns denoting food, drink, animals and plants; it also has dichotomous direct and indirect adnominal possessive constructions, which are generally labeled inalienable or alienable in the Oceanic literature. These terms refer to a distinction between close versus distant structural marking, which do not strictly correla…
Lexical restrictions on grammatical relations in voice constructions (Northern Amis)
Amis (Austronesian, Taiwan) displays a rich, partly symmetrical voice system and a split case-marking pattern which are selected and restricted by (i) verb classes whose basic diathesis correlates with semantic properties such as activities versus states, and (ii) by Aktionsart features (i.e., atelic activities versus telic accomplishment and achievements), which also denote degrees of patient affectedness. Referential features such as patient de…
Indefinite expressions and accessibility hierarchy to core argument functionsin a sample of Austronesian languages(and beyond)
In many languages, indefinite expressions are known to have restricted access to core argument functions. This article focuses on the accessibility hierarchy of indefinite expressions to subject and object functions in a sample of Austronesian languages. Aiming at some comparative analysis, some cross-linguistic perspectives on the differential encoding of ± definite core arguments and other types of restrictions are discussed. The questions addr…
Processus évolutifs de langues de l’extrême nord de la Nouvelle-Calédonie
Dans le prolongement des recherches d’A.-G. Haudricourt, de F. Ozanne-Rivierre et de J.-C. Rivierre sur les processus évolutifs des langues kanak de la Nouvelle-Calédonie par rapport au proto-océanien, cet article analyse des faits spécifiques à deux langues de l’extrême nord de la Grande Terre, le nêlêmwa-nixumwak et le zuanga-yuanga. Dans ces langues, diverses neutralisations d’oppositions ont réduit l’inventaire des consonnes par rapport au pr…
Roots and stems in Amis and Nêlêmwa (Austronesian)
In constrast with Nêlêmwa (Oceanic, New Caledonia) whose lexemes are most generally subcategorised as nouns or verbs and undergo category-changing derivations, in Amis (Formosan), roots are pervasively categorially neutral, yet they contain semantic features and instructions that allow or disallow combination with primary derivational affixes which specify their class and category. Lexical categories are expressed after roots are derived into mor…
Tense, aspect and mood in Nêlêmwa (New Caledonia)
Nêlêmwa is an Aspect-Mood oriented language; verbs are unmarked for tense, time reference is expressed by chronology and time adverbs. Aspect hinges on three notions: events (in the aorist), states, and processes. One focus is the contrast between the perfect and the aorist. Bare aorist verb forms refer to events or to sequences of events with no reference to their internal phases. The perfect expresses internal relations between processes and cl…
Gestion des risques et responsabilité médicale dans les établissements publics de santé
La « loi Kouchner » du 4 mars 2002 a considérablement modifié la spécificité de la responsabilité médicale administrative. Si le juge administratif traduit encore quelque peu son autonomie, celle‐ci ne se justifie plus comme par le passé. L’activité médicale fait l’objet de nombreuses démarches d’amélioration des pratiques à l’origine d’une réduction du nombre et de la gravité d’évènements indésirables susceptibles de donner lieu à réparation. Ce…
Clause linking and clause hierarchy
Informational and referential hierarchy
This paper analyses clause-linking strategies in mostly Austronesian languages, with particular focus on the functions of informational and referential hierarchy strategies in the architecture of complex clauses. Informational (topic, focus) hierarchy and its markers, structure clauses as subordinate via the contrast between presupposition vs. assertion. Referential hierarchy and its markers (endophoric demonstratives and definite markers), are a…
Complex Predicates in Oceanic Languages
Serial verbs and complex predicates have a long history of research, yet there is comparatively little documentation on Oceanic languages. This volume presents new data for further typological studies. While previous research on serial verbs in Oceanic languages was mostly devoted to "core" serial constructions (with non-contiguous sV(o)sV(o) nuclei), this volume contributes a more detailed investigation of the "nuclear" type of complex predicate…
Dictionnaire nelemwa-nixumwak francaisanglais (Nouvelle-Caledonie)
En pays kanak
En se situant toujours au plus près des gens, de leurs paroles et de leurs actions, ces seize textes précis et respectueux des variations régionales entendent rompre avec les considérations générales et globales qui escamotent le plus souvent le "grain" si particulier de la culture kanak. En retour, loin de tout exotisme et de tout passéisme, ce livre propose des outils d'investigation et d'analyse novateurs, pour aborder l’une des civilisations …
Thématisation et préconstruit, la structure des relatives en nêlêmwa1
Je retiendrai comme définition d'une relative la détermination d'un groupe nominal par une proposition, abstraction faite de la présence ou de l'absence de relateurs. Cette définition est donc fonctionnelle. Les langues de Nouvelle-Calédonie se signalent tout d'abord par l'absence de pronoms relatifs, mais des morphèmes apparaissent toutefois à la jonction entre le nom et sa détermination propositionnelle : il s'agit généralement soit d'un déterm…
Processus évolutifs de langues de l’extrême nord de la Nouvelle-Calédonie
Dans le prolongement des recherches d’A.-G. Haudricourt, de F. Ozanne-Rivierre et de J.-C. Rivierre sur les processus évolutifs des langues kanak de la Nouvelle-Calédonie par rapport au proto-océanien, cet article analyse des faits spécifiques à deux langues de l’extrême nord de la Grande Terre, le nêlêmwa-nixumwak et le zuanga-yuanga. Dans ces langues, diverses neutralisations d’oppositions ont réduit l’inventaire des consonnes par rapport au pr…
Thématisation et préconstruit, la structure des relatives en nêlêmwa1
Je retiendrai comme définition d'une relative la détermination d'un groupe nominal par une proposition, abstraction faite de la présence ou de l'absence de relateurs. Cette définition est donc fonctionnelle. Les langues de Nouvelle-Calédonie se signalent tout d'abord par l'absence de pronoms relatifs, mais des morphèmes apparaissent toutefois à la jonction entre le nom et sa détermination propositionnelle : il s'agit généralement soit d'un déterm…
Dictionnaire nelemwa-nixumwak francaisanglais (Nouvelle-Caledonie)
En pays kanak
En se situant toujours au plus près des gens, de leurs paroles et de leurs actions, ces seize textes précis et respectueux des variations régionales entendent rompre avec les considérations générales et globales qui escamotent le plus souvent le "grain" si particulier de la culture kanak. En retour, loin de tout exotisme et de tout passéisme, ce livre propose des outils d'investigation et d'analyse novateurs, pour aborder l’une des civilisations …
Complex Predicates in Oceanic Languages
Serial verbs and complex predicates have a long history of research, yet there is comparatively little documentation on Oceanic languages. This volume presents new data for further typological studies. While previous research on serial verbs in Oceanic languages was mostly devoted to "core" serial constructions (with non-contiguous sV(o)sV(o) nuclei), this volume contributes a more detailed investigation of the "nuclear" type of complex predicate…
Clause linking and clause hierarchy
Informational and referential hierarchy
This paper analyses clause-linking strategies in mostly Austronesian languages, with particular focus on the functions of informational and referential hierarchy strategies in the architecture of complex clauses. Informational (topic, focus) hierarchy and its markers, structure clauses as subordinate via the contrast between presupposition vs. assertion. Referential hierarchy and its markers (endophoric demonstratives and definite markers), are a…
Gestion des risques et responsabilité médicale dans les établissements publics de santé
La « loi Kouchner » du 4 mars 2002 a considérablement modifié la spécificité de la responsabilité médicale administrative. Si le juge administratif traduit encore quelque peu son autonomie, celle‐ci ne se justifie plus comme par le passé. L’activité médicale fait l’objet de nombreuses démarches d’amélioration des pratiques à l’origine d’une réduction du nombre et de la gravité d’évènements indésirables susceptibles de donner lieu à réparation. Ce…
Tense, aspect and mood in Nêlêmwa (New Caledonia)
Nêlêmwa is an Aspect-Mood oriented language; verbs are unmarked for tense, time reference is expressed by chronology and time adverbs. Aspect hinges on three notions: events (in the aorist), states, and processes. One focus is the contrast between the perfect and the aorist. Bare aorist verb forms refer to events or to sequences of events with no reference to their internal phases. The perfect expresses internal relations between processes and cl…
Roots and stems in Amis and Nêlêmwa (Austronesian)
In constrast with Nêlêmwa (Oceanic, New Caledonia) whose lexemes are most generally subcategorised as nouns or verbs and undergo category-changing derivations, in Amis (Formosan), roots are pervasively categorially neutral, yet they contain semantic features and instructions that allow or disallow combination with primary derivational affixes which specify their class and category. Lexical categories are expressed after roots are derived into mor…
Indefinite expressions and accessibility hierarchy to core argument functionsin a sample of Austronesian languages(and beyond)
In many languages, indefinite expressions are known to have restricted access to core argument functions. This article focuses on the accessibility hierarchy of indefinite expressions to subject and object functions in a sample of Austronesian languages. Aiming at some comparative analysis, some cross-linguistic perspectives on the differential encoding of ± definite core arguments and other types of restrictions are discussed. The questions addr…
Processus évolutifs de langues de l’extrême nord de la Nouvelle-Calédonie
Dans le prolongement des recherches d’A.-G. Haudricourt, de F. Ozanne-Rivierre et de J.-C. Rivierre sur les processus évolutifs des langues kanak de la Nouvelle-Calédonie par rapport au proto-océanien, cet article analyse des faits spécifiques à deux langues de l’extrême nord de la Grande Terre, le nêlêmwa-nixumwak et le zuanga-yuanga. Dans ces langues, diverses neutralisations d’oppositions ont réduit l’inventaire des consonnes par rapport au pr…
Lexical restrictions on grammatical relations in voice constructions (Northern Amis)
Amis (Austronesian, Taiwan) displays a rich, partly symmetrical voice system and a split case-marking pattern which are selected and restricted by (i) verb classes whose basic diathesis correlates with semantic properties such as activities versus states, and (ii) by Aktionsart features (i.e., atelic activities versus telic accomplishment and achievements), which also denote degrees of patient affectedness. Referential features such as patient de…
Categorizing possession in Zuanga-Yuanga and other Kanak languages (New Caledonia)
Like many other Oceanic and Kanak languages of New Caledonia, Zuanga-Yuanga [ZY] has classifiers restricted to the possession of nouns denoting food, drink, animals and plants; it also has dichotomous direct and indirect adnominal possessive constructions, which are generally labeled inalienable or alienable in the Oceanic literature. These terms refer to a distinction between close versus distant structural marking, which do not strictly correla…
Adversative and experiential applicative constructions in Northern Amis (Austronesian)
Experiential constructions is an understudied topic in western Austronesian languages. The focus is on Northern Amis (Formosan), with some crosslinguistic comparison. In Amis, experiential constructions are derived by a syncretic suffix – en , which is also an Undergoer Voice suffix. In experiential constructions, – en is suffixed to stative-intransitive verbs compatible with experiences, and functions as an applicative voice that licenses an ext…
Philosophy (12 works) · Linguistics (9 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (8 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (5 works) · Verb (5 works) · Humanities (4 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (4 works) · Political science (4 works)