Situation professionnelle

• 2019-2020 : Assistant de recherche en production et analyse de données projet DREAM (https://cl.lingfil.uu.se/~harald/dream.html)
• 2016-2019 : Assistant en production et analyse de données projet Adagram, LLACAN
• 2015-à ce jour : Assistant de recherche, Institut Max-Planck des sciences de l’histoire humaine, Iéna, Allemagne & Institut Max-Planck de psycholinguistique, Nimègue, les Pays Bas. Projet: Grambank (base de données typologique : http://glottobank.org/)
• 2014-2015 : Stage, Institut Donders, Centre de Cognition, Nimègue, Pays Bas. Projet: Putting things in new places (voir Van Bergen, G., & Flecken, M. (2017). Putting things in new places: Linguistic experience modulates the predictive power of placement verb semantics. Journal of Memory and Language, 92, 26-42. doi:10.1016/j.jml.2016.05.003.)

Thèmes de recherche

• Linguistique de terrain
• Analyse grammaticale
• Typologie
• Morphosyntaxe
• Langues adamawa
• Histoire de l'Afrique

Cursus Universitaire

• 2016-2020 : Doctorant, INALCO
• 2014-2016 : Programme de Master en linguistique générale, Université Radboud de Nimègue, Nimègue, Pays Bas
• 2013-2014 : Programme de Master en linguistique comparative et diachronique, KU Leuven, Louvain, Belgique
• 2010-2013 : Bachelor en langues et littératures modernes, orientation anglais et néerlandais, KU Leuven, Louvain, Belgique

Mémoires et thèses

• Lesage, Jakob. 2020. A grammar and lexicon of Kam (àŋwɔ̀m), a Niger-Congo language of central eastern Nigeria. Paris: INALCO. (PhD Thesis.)
• Lesage, J. (2016). Words, trees, and the dispersal of iron working in sub-Saharan Africa: Some explorations of a computational linguistic approach to tracing the spread of words for “iron” across Africa (Mémoire de Master). Université Radboud de Nimègue, Pays-Bas. Supervisé par Mark Dingemanse et Seán Roberts.
• Lesage, J. (2014). Nominal compounds and other N-N combinations: A typological study of a sample of Pama-Nyungan languages (Mémoire de Master). KU Leuven, Louvain, Belgique. Supervisé par Jean-Christophe Verstraete.
• Lesage, J. (2013). Surprise and modality, negation and subjectification: Mirative functions of no way (Mémoire de Bachelor). KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgique. Supervisé par Kristin Davidse.

Publications

• Lesage, J. (à paraitre). Binominal compounds and other binominal constructions in Pama-Nyungan languages. In S. Pepper & F. Masini (Éd.), When noun meets noun: Binominal lexemes in cross-linguistic perspective. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.
• Lesage, J. (2019). Review: Littig, Sabine: Linguistische Beschreibung des Kolbila. Eine Adamawasprache der Nordregion Kameruns. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe 2016. XV, 227 pp., 8° = Grammatische Analysen Afrikanischer Sprachen/Grammatical Analyses of African Languages 53. Paperback. € 44.80. ISBN 978-3-89645-569-7. Orientalistische Literaturzeitung, 113(4‑5), 416‑419.
• Lesage, J. (2019). Selected Kam texts and elicitation sessions (with audio). In Pangloss Collection: An archive for endangered languages. à consulter à l’adresse : https://lacito.vjf.cnrs.fr/pangloss/corpus/list_rsc.php?lg=Kam&name=kam

Présentations

• Lesage, Jakob & Litvinova, Lora. 2019. The tone system of Kam. Mainz, Germany. (Presented at the Adamawa Conference 2019, Mainz, Germany, September 9, 2019, Mainz, Germany.)
• Lesage, Jakob. 2019. Adjectives in Kam (a Niger-Congo language of central-eastern Nigeria). Leiden. (Paper presented at the 49th Colloquim on African Languages and Linguistics (CALL), Leiden, the Netherlands, August 28, 2019, Leiden.)
• Lesage, J. (2019). Tense, aspect, modality, and (some) negation in Kam (and some hidden information structure). TAM systems in Adamawa Languages, Universität Hamburg.
• Lesage, J. (2019). The position of Kam (Central-Eastern Nigeria) within Niger-Congo (And the overestimation of genealogical uniformity in African languages). Approaches to the study of language variation and change in indigenous minority languages (ASIMIL), Leiden.
• Lesage, J. (2018). Negation in Kam (Niger-Congo, Central-eastern Nigeria). Syntax of the World’s Languages, INALCO, Paris.
• Lesage, J. (2018). Tense, aspect and mood in Kam (unclassified Niger-Congo). 48th Colloquim on African Languages and Linguistics (CALL), Leiden.
• Lesage, J., & Neshcheret, N. (2017). Wordhood issues while compiling a large-scale typological database. "What is a word?”, Zürich.
• Hammarström, H. & J. Lesage (2016). Grambank: A New Worldwide Typological Database. Atelier sur Database Representations for Morphosyntactic Variation, SOAS, Londres, Royaume-Uni.
• Lesage, J. (2016). Grambank: Some coders’ perspectives. Atelier sur Database Representations for Morphosyntactic Variation, SOAS, Londres, Royaume-Uni.
• Davidse, K., A. Van Linden, J. Lesage & L. Brems (2014). Negation, grammaticalization and subjectification: The development of polar, modal and mirative no way-constructions. 18^th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics: Session on Grammaticalization (Noun Phrase), KU Leuven, Louvain, Belgique.

Autres ressources

• Lesage, Jakob. 2019. Some data on reported speech in Kam: A possible quotative marker and issues in logophoricity. Paris: Zenodo. (https://zenodo.org/record/3254963#.XREMoOgzZPY)
• Lesage, Jakob. 2019. A Kam Lexicon (Version 1). Paris. (doi:10.5281/zenodo.3254954) (https://zenodo.org/record/3254955#.XREJRugzZPY)