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Evidentiality, Grammaticalization, English, Tibetan, Typology
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Biography

Eric Mélac is an associate professor in linguistics. His areas of expertise are evidentiality, modality, the lexicon-grammar interface, the theories of language change, typology, corpus linguistics and Tibetan linguistics.

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Employment (1)

Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier: Montpellier, Languedoc-Roussillon, FR

2015-09-01 to present | Associate professor (English)
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Education and qualifications (1)

Université Sorbonne Nouvelle: Paris, FR

2009-09 to 2014-12 | PhD (English studies)
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Works (13)

The functions of evidentiality

Functions of Language
2024-08-05 | Journal article
Contributors: Eric Mélac; Pascale Leclercq
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Evidentiality as a grammaticalization passenger

Studies in Language
2024-05-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Eric Mélac; Joanna Bialek
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Position paper: The links between evidentiality, modality, and grammaticalization

Studies in Language
2024-04-08 | Journal article
Contributors: Éric Mélac
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The pragmatic differences between grammatical and lexical evidentiality

Journal of Pragmatics
2023 | Journal article
Contributors: Éric Mélac
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The grammaticalization of evidentiality in English

English Language and Linguistics
2022-06 | Journal article
Contributors: ERIC MÉLAC
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Bernd Heine, Gunther Kaltenböck, Tania Kuteva & Haiping Long, The rise of discourse markers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. xi + 308.

Journal of Linguistics
2022-02 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0022-2267
Part of ISSN: 1469-7742
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Second language acquisition of evidentiality in French and English in a narrative task

Language, Interaction and Acquisition
2021-12-31 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1879-7865
Part of ISSN: 1879-7873
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Chapter 7. The semantics of the verb give in Tibetan

GiveConstructions across Languages
2021-03-15 | Book chapter
Part of ISSN: 1573-594X
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Eric Mélac

The rise of right periphery either in English

Language Sciences
2019-09 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0388-0001
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Grammaticalisation and L2 Acquisition of Evidentiality: a corpus-based pilot study on English and French

2016 | Conference paper
Contributors: Pascale Leclercq; Eric Melac
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Pour une taxonomie du changement linguistique : comment redéfinir la grammaticalisation

2016 | Book chapter
Contributors: Éric Mélac
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Evidentiality in English - a contrastive study on a Tibetan- English corpus

2014-12-12 | Dissertation/Thesis
Contributors: Éric Mélac
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Vocabulaire thématique de langue parlée français-tibétain

2014-06 | Book
Contributors: Éric Mélac; Françoise Robin; Camille Simon
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Peer review (2 reviews for 2 publications/grants)

Review activity for English language and linguistics. (1)
Review activity for Journal of linguistics. (1)