Alain Peyraube#
| Membership Number: | 2404 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2006 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | http://rfiea.fr/staff/alain-peyraube |
Present and Previous Positions
- Chair Professor of Chinese Linguistics at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)
- since 2001 Directeur de Recherche at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS, Paris, France)
- 1997-2001 Deputy Director of the "Division of Humanities and Social Sciences" of the CNRS
- 1984-1998 Director of the Institute of East Asian Linguistics (CNRS and EHESS)
- 1984 Doctorat d’Etat from Paris 7 University
- 1976 Ph.D. from Paris 8 University
Fields of Scholarship
- Chinese linguistics
- Chinese diachronic syntax and semantics
- Typology of East-Asian languages
- Cognitive approaches to the diversity of languages
- The origin and evolution of languages
Honours and Awards
- 2007 Honorary professor at the University of Beijing
- 2006-2010 Founding Member of the Scientific Council of the European Research Council (ERC)
- 2006 Member of Academia Europaea
- 2002-2004 President of the European Association of Chinese Studies
- 2002 Corresponding member of the Academia Sinica of Taiwan
- 1998-1999 President of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics
- 1988 The French Academy Stanislas Julie Prize
- Distinguished member of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
