Alain Polguère

Studi linguistici

Alain Polguère, Ph.D., Professor in linguistics, Honorary senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF)
Current position Professor (Professeur des universit´es) Exceptional class Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France
Head of the Lexicology of Lexical Networks research group ATILF CNRS laboratory, Nancy, France
Other affiliation Associate member of the OLST research group, University of Montreal, Canada
Professional address ATILF CNRS 44 avenue de la Lib´eration, BP 30687 54063 Nancy Cedex, France
Office phone +33 3 54 50 53 24 E-mail alain.polguere@univ-lorraine.fr Website https://perso.atilf.fr/apolguere/
Academic career
Since 2009 Professor, Department of language sciences, Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France
2014–2019 Senior member (promotion 2014–2019), Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), Paris, France
2010–2016 Professor associated to the Department of linguistics and translation, University of Montreal, Canada
2005–2010 Professor, Department of linguistics and translation, University of Montreal, Canada
1997–2005 Associate professor, Department of linguistics and translation, University of Montreal, Canada
1995–1997 Assistant professor, Department of linguistics and translation, University of Montreal, Canada
1991–1995 Assistant professor (Lecturer), Department of English Language and Literature, National University of Singapore, Republic of Singapore
University degrees
• Ph.D. in linguistics, University of Montreal (Canada), 1990.
• D.E.A. in computational linguistics, University of Clermont 2 (France), 1983.
• M.A. in linguistics, University of Paris 10 (France), 1982.
• B.A. in linguistics, University of Paris 10 (France), 1981.
• D.E.U.G. in modern literature, University of Paris 10 (France), 1980.
Awards and scholarships
• Senior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), 2014–219.
• Doctoral supervision and research award (Prime d’encadrement doctoral et de recherche),
French Ministry of National Education, 2014–2019 and 2019–2023.
• Scientific excellence award (Prime d’excellence scientifique), French Ministry of National Education,
2010–2014.
• Minister’s price (Prix du ministre), Competition for the Minister of Education’s Awards
2003–2004 (Quebec, Canada), for my book Lexicologie et s´emantique lexicale. Notions fondamentales
(2003).
• Special mention for the quality of the language, Competition for the Minister of Education’s
Awards 2003–2004 (Quebec, Canada), same publication.
• Price for best paper at the 5e conf´erence annuelle sur le traitement automatique des langues
naturelles (TALN’1998), for my article Polgu`ere (1998c) – cf. page 10 below
• Ph.D. Scholarship from the World University Service of Canada (WUSC), 1984–1987.
Research fields
Lexicology, computational lexicography, lexical networks, semantics-syntax interface, vocabulary
learning/teaching.
Main editorial responsibilities
Editor, with Christine Jacquet-Pfau, of the linguistic journal Cahiers de lexicologie
published by Classiques Garnier (Paris).

 

6 Publications significatives, classées par date de publication:
 
Alain Polguère (2023). “Lexicology and lexicography”. In Linda R. Waugh, Monique Monville-Burston and John E. Joseph (eds.): The Cambridge History of Linguistics, Chapter 21, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK, 682–703.
ISBN: 978-0-511-84278-8
 
Alain Polguère (2023). “Les modificateurs redondants et leur rôle en terminologie. De l’amour physique aux masques de protection”. In Paolo Frassi (ed.): Phraséologie et terminologie, Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fü̈r romanische Philologie, De Gruyter, Berlin & Boston, 83–104. 
ISBN: 978-3-11-074959-5
 
Leonid Iomdin, Jasmina Milićević, Alain Polguère (eds.) (2022). Lifetime linguistic inspirations. To Igor Mel’čuk from colleagues and friends for his 90th birthday, Wiener Slawistischer Almanach, Sonderband 101, Peter Lang, Berlin et al.
ISBN: 978-3-631-89042-4
 
Alain Polguère (2016). Lexicologie et sémantique lexicale. Notions fondamentales, 3rd ed., Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal, Montreal.
ISBN: 978-2-7606-3657-6
 
Alain Polguère (2014). “From Writing Dictionaries to Weaving Lexical Networks”. International Journal of Lexicography, 27(4), 396–418.
ISSN: 0950-3846
 
Igor Mel’čuk, Alain Polguère (2007). Lexique actif du français. L’apprentissage du vocabulaire fondé sur 20 000 dérivations sémantiques et collocations du français, Champs linguistiques, De Boeck & Larcier, Brussels.
ISBN: 978-2-8011-1345-5