Michel Ferlus
Michel Ferlus | |
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Tương Dương, Việt Nam; making seminal contributions to the historical phonology of Southeast Asian languages | |
Scientific career | |
Fields | historical phonology |
Institutions | CNRS |
Michel Ferlus (1935–2024) was a French
Biography
Michel Ferlus was born in 1935. He followed classes in
He has published extensively about his findings on numerous languages of Laos, Thailand, Burma/Myanmar, and Vietnam, in journals such as Mon-Khmer Studies, Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale, and Diachronica.
Main findings
Michel Ferlus's main discoveries relate to the effects of monosyllabicization on the phonological structure of Southeast Asian languages.
Selected publications
- Ferlus, Michel (1971). "La langue souei : mutations consonantiques et bipartition du système vocalique". Bulletin de la Société de Linguistique de Paris. 66 (1): 378–388.
- Ferlus, Michel (1982). "Spirantisation des obstruantes médiales et formation du système consonantique du vietnamien". Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale. 11 (1): 83–106. .
- Ferlus, Michel (1992). "Essai de phonétique historique du khmer (du milieu du premier millénaire de notre ère à l'époque actuelle)". Mon-Khmer Studies. 21: 57–89. Retrieved 2024-03-27.
- Ferlus, Michel (1996). "Remarques sur le consonantisme du proto kam-sui". Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale. 25 (2): 235–278. .
- Ferlus, Michel (1997). "Problèmes de la formation du système vocalique du vietnamien". Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale. 21 (1): 37–51. .
- Ferlus, Michel (1998). "Les systèmes de tons dans les langues viet-muong". Diachronica. 15 (1): 1–27.
- Ferlus, Michel (2004). "The origin of tones in Viet-Muong". Papers from the Eleventh Annual Conference of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society 2001, ed. by Somsonge Burusphat. Eleventh Annual Conference of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society 2001. Tempe, Arizona: Arizona State University Programme for Southeast Asian Studies Monograph Series Press. pp. 297–313.
- Ferlus, Michel (2009). "What were the four Divisions of Middle Chinese?". Diachronica. 26 (2): 184–213.
References
- ^ A Vietnamese TV programme about fieldwork on the Lai Pao script by Michel Ferlus and Trần Trí Dõi
- ^ Michaud, Alexis (2024). "In Memoriam Michel Ferlus (1935-2024)". Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale. 53 (2) – via HAL.
- ^ Ferlus, Michel. 1979. “Formation des registres et mutations consonantiques dans les langues mon-khmer.” Mon-Khmer Studies 8: 1–76.
- ^ Ferlus, Michel. “Spirantisation des obstruantes médiales et formation du système consonantique du vietnamien,” Cah. Linguist. - Asie Orient., vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 83–106, 1982.
External links
- Bibliography on the website of AEFEK
- Open-access publications by Michel Ferlus, from the SEALANG archive
- Open-access publications by Michel Ferlus, from the HAL archive
- Google Scholar profile
- "Michel Ferlus en quelques mots": biographical note (in French) on the website of AEFEK
- Audio recordings made by Michel Ferlus on several languages of Southeast Asia: 531 audio recordings, including 86 with annotations (Pangloss Collection, open access).