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Maïa PONSONNET

Coordinator of the research axis DiLiS
CNRS Researcher (with Habilitation)

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Teams :   DiLiS  COVALI 

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Ponsonnet, M., 2020, "Difference and repetition in language shift to a creole. The expression of emotions", Routledge (link)

Ponsonnet, M., 2014, "The language of emotions: The case of Dalabon (Australia)", John Benjamins Publishing Company, 466 p. (publisher link, open archive link)  (Couverture)

Ponsonnet, M., 2022, "Towards a semantic typology of feelings The linguistic encoding of emotions across languages, and what it tells us", Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches, rapport de synthèse , SDL , Université Lyon 2 Lumière, 130 p. (link)

Ponsonnet, M., 2013, "The language of emotions in Dalabon (Northern Australia)", Mémoire de thèse, Linguistics, School of Culture, History and Language, Australian National University (link)

Ponsonnet, M., Hoffmann, D. & O'Keeffe, I. (eds), 2020, "Emotion, body and mind across a continent: Figurative representations of emotions in Australian Aboriginal languages", Pragmatics & Cognition, special issue 27(1) (link)

Ponsonnet, M. & Vuillermet, M. (eds), 2018, "Morphology and emotions across the world’s languages", John Benjamins, Special issue of Studies in Language, 42(1), 295 p., John Benjamins, 0378-4177 (link, ingenta connect)  (Couverture)

Travési, C. & Ponsonnet, M. (eds), 2015, "Les conceptions de la propriété foncière à l’épreuve des revendications autochtones : possession, propriété et leurs avatars", Marseille, pacific-credo Publications, 306 p.

Ponsonnet, M., Dao, L. & Bowler, M. (eds), 2012, "Proceedings of the 42nd Australian Linguistic Society Conference – 2011. (Canberra, 1-4 Dec 2011)", Canberra, ANU Research Repository

Ponsonnet, M., 2024, "ANGER in Dalabon: “Nasty diseases and invasive species”", in Metaphors of ANGER across languages: Universality and variation, Kövecses, Z., Benczes, R. & Szelid, V. (eds), Mouton De Gruyter (link)

Ponsonnet, M., 2023, "The affordances of ‘face’ in Dalabon, Gunwinyguan, non-Paman-Nyungan, Australia", in Embodiment in cross-linguistic studies. The 'face'. , Pattillo, K. & Wasniewska, M. (eds), Leiden, Boston, Brill (link)

Ritz, M.E. & Ponsonnet, M., 2023, "Time, Language and Thought: What language can tell us about our concepts of time", in Everywhen. Australia and the language of deep history, McGrath, A., Rademaker, L. & Troy, T. (eds), The University of Nebraska Press, pp. 165-192 (link)

Ponsonnet, M., 2023, "Possession", in Oxford Guide to Australian languages, Bowern, C. (ed), Oxford University Press, pp. 243-252 (link to open archive)

Ponsonnet, M., 2023, "Interjections", in Oxford Guide to Australian languages, Bowern, C. (ed), Oxford University Press, pp. 564-572 (link to open archive)

Ponsonnet, M., 2022, "Emotional language: A brief history of recent research", in Approaches to Language and Culture, Völkel, S. & Nassenstein, N. (eds), De Gruyter, pp. 307-335 (link)

Ponsonnet, M., 2022, "Emotional relativity and cross-cultural research on emotions", in Language and Emotion. An international handbook, vol. 2, Schiewer, G., Altarriba, J. & Ng, B. (eds), De Gruyter Mouton, pp. 1031-1061 (link)

Ponsonnet, M., 2021, "Transfer and applicative constructions in Gunwinyguan languages (non-Pama-Nyungan, Australia)", in Give constructions across languages, Bouveret, M. (ed), John Benjamins, pp. 121-143 (link)

Mushin, I. & Ponsonnet, M., 2021, "Country, People and Language in Carpentaria", in Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Castro-Koshy, E. & Lehartel, T. (eds), Ellipse (link)

McConvell, P. & Ponsonnet, M., 2018, "Generic term of subsections (‘skins’): sources and semantic networks", in Skins, kin and clans, McConvell, P. & Kelly, P. (eds), Résultats Postdoc ASLAN, Canberra, ANU Epress, pp. 271-315

Ponsonnet, M., 2017, "Les métaphores de la colère en dalabon : universalité et particularités", in L’expression des émotions : syntaxe et sémantique, Tersis, N. & Boyeldieu, P. (eds), Paris, ENS Editions, pp. 531-556

Ponsonnet, M., 2016, "Emotion nouns in Australian languages. A case study and a preliminary survey ", in Language, Land and Story in Australia, Austin, P., Koch, H. & Simpson, J. (eds), Londres, EL Publishing

Ponsonnet, M., 2016, "Reflexive, reciprocal and emphatic functions in Barunga Kriol", in Loss and renewal. Australian languages since colonization, Meakins, F. & O'Shannessy, C. (eds), Berlin, Mouton De Gruyter, pp. 297-332

Ponsonnet, M. & Evans, N., 2015, "Emotional valuation in Dalabon diminutives", in The Edinburgh Handbook of Evaluative Morphology, Grandi, N. & Kortvelyessy, L. (eds), Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, pp. 401-407

Stephenson, A., Ponsonnet, M. & Allassonnière-Tang, M., 2024, "‘Reflexemes’ – a first cross-linguistic insight into how and why reflexive constructions encode emotions", STUF - Language Typology and Universals, 77:1, pp. 141-188 (link)

Yacopetti, E. & Ponsonnet, M., 2024, "A semantic typology of emotion nouns in Australian Indigenous languages", Australian Journal of Linguistics, 44:11, pp. 29-68 (open access link)

Ponsonnet, M., Coupé, C., Pellegrino, F., Garcia Arasco, A. & Pisanski, K., 2024, "Vowel signatures in emotional interjections and nonlinguistic vocalizations expressing pain, disgust, and joy across languages", The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 156:5 (open access link)

Ponsonnet, M., 2023, "Synthèse : Les langues autochtones australiennes. Écologie et idéologies", Journal de la Société des Océanistes, 156, pp. 85-101 (open access link)

Ward, I., Ponsonnet, M., Miceli, L., Dotte-Sarout, E. & Rustandi, J., 2023, "How linguistic data can inform archaeological investigations: an Australian case study around combustion features", Open Archaeology, 9:1, pp. doi.org/10.1515/opar-2022-0312 (open access link)

Brown, C. & Ponsonnet, M., 2023, "Event plurality and the verbal suffix ‑(a)bad in Australian Kriol", Journal of Pidgin and Creole Language, online (link)

Ponsonnet, M., 2022, "The Linguistic Embodiment of Emotions. A Study of the Australian Continent", Ethos, 50:2, pp. 153-183 (link)

Palmer, B., Hoffmann, D., Blythe, J., Gaby, A., Pascoe, B. & Ponsonnet, M., 2021, "Frames of spatial reference in five Australian languages", Spatial Cognition and Computation, https://doi.org/10.1080/13875868.2021.1929239 (link)

Brown, C. & Ponsonnet, M., 2021, "Constraints on subject elision in northern Australian Kriol: Between discourse and syntax", Australian Journal of Linguistics, 41:3, pp. 287-313 (link)

Laughren, M. & Ponsonnet, M., 2020, "Ear and belly in Warlpiri descriptions of cognitive and emotional experience", Pragmatics & Cognition, 27:1, pp. 240-271 (link)

Ponsonnet, M. & Laginha, K.J., 2020, "The role of the body in descriptions of emotions. A typology of the Australian continent", Pragmatics & Cognition, 27:1, pp. 20-82 (link)

Luk, E. & Ponsonnet, M., 2019, "Discourse and pragmatic functions of the Dalabon 'ergative' case-marker", Australian Journal of Linguistics, 39:3, pp. 287-328 (link)

Ponsonnet, M., 2018, "Expressivity and performance. Expressing compassion and grief with a prosodic contour in languages of the Gunwinyguan region (northern Australia)", Journal of Pragmatics, 136, pp. 76-96

Ponsonnet, M., 2018, "Lexical semantics in language shift. Comparing emotion lexica in Dalabon and Barunga Kriol (northern Australia)", Journal of Pidgin and Kriol languages, 33:1, pp. 92-35

Ponsonnet, M., 2018, "A preliminary typology of emotional connotations in morphological diminutives and augmentatives", Studies in Language, 42:1, pp. 17-50

Ponsonnet, M., 2018, "Expressive values of reduplication in Barunga Kriol (northern Australia)", Studies in Language, 42:1, pp. 226-255

Ponsonnet, M., 2017, "Conceptual representations and figurative language in language shift. Metaphors and gestures for emotions in Kriol (Barunga, northern Australia)", Cognitive Linguistics, 28:4, pp. 631-671 (link)

Ponsonnet, M., 2015, "Nominal subclasses in Dalabon (South-Western Arnhem Land)", The Australian Journal of Linguistics, 35:1, pp. 1-52 (link)

Ponsonnet, M., 2014, "Les rôles de kangu « ventre » dans les composés émotionnels du dalabon (Australie du Nord) : entre figuratif et littéral ", Bulletin de la Société de Linguistique de Paris, 109:1, pp. 415-461

Ponsonnet, M., 2014, "Figurative and non-figurative uses of body-parts in descriptions of emotions in Dalabon (Northern Australia)", International Journal of Language and Culture, 1:1, pp. 98-130 (cliquez ici)

McConvell, P. & Ponsonnet, M., 2013, "Results and prospects in the study of semantic change: A review of From polysemy to semantic change (M. Vanhove ed.)", Journal of Language Contact, 6:1, pp. 180-196

Ponsonnet, M., 2011, "Les figures du doute en langue dalabon (Australie du Nord)", Journal de la Société des Océanistes, 132:1, pp. 151-164

Ponsonnet, M., 2011, "Brainwash from English? Barunga Kriol speakers views about their language", Anthropological Linguistics, 52:2, pp. 160-183

Ponsonnet, M., 2010, "Aspects of the semantics of emotions and feelings in Dalabon (South-Western Arnhem Land)", The Australian Journal of Anthropology, 20:3, pp. 367-389

Ponsonnet, M., 2009, "Aspects of the semantics of intellectual subjectivity in Dalabon (South Western Arnhem Land)", Australian Aboriginal Studies, 2009:1, pp. 17-28

Ponsonnet, M., 2014, "Documenting the language of emotions in Dalabon (Northern Australia). Caveats, solutions and benefits "Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory 4, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 6-8 Décembre 2013, Belkadi, A., Chatsiou, K. & Rowan, K. (eds), pp. 1-13 (cliquez ici)

Ponsonnet, M., 2012, "Body-parts in Dalabon and Barunga Kriol: Matches and mismatches"42nd Australian Linguistic Society Conference, Canberra, Australie, 1-4 décembre 2011, ANU Research Repository, pp. 351-387 (cliquez ici)

Ponsonnet, M., 2022, "Review of How Emotions are Made in Talk (Robles J.S. and Weatherall A. eds.)", Journal of Pragmatics, 200, 180-183

Ponsonnet, M., 2019, "Recirculating Songs. Revitalising the singing practices of Indigenous Australia (Wafer J. et Turpin M. eds.)", Aboriginal History, Canberra

Ponsonnet, M., 2017, "Les émotions dans le discours/Emotions in Discourse (Blumenthal P., Novakova I. et Siepmann D. eds.). ", Bulletin de la Société de Linguistique de Paris 111(2). , Paris

Ponsonnet, M., 2013, "Mythes, missiles et cannibales. Le récit d’un premier contact en Australie (Dousset L.)", Anthropological Forum, 23(3)

Ponsonnet, M., 2008, "Le défi indigène (Glowczewski B. and Henry R. ed.)", L'Homme, 187/188

Ponsonnet, M., 2014, "Dalabon Emotion Glossary. Second draft.", Canberra, Australie, pp. 34 (cliquez ici)

Ponsonnet, M., 2021, "Emotion Language Australia", Broad audience website., www.emotionlanguageaustralia.com (open access link)

Ponsonnet, M., 2012, "A culturally informed corpus of Dalabon", ELDP Project, Endangered Languages Archive (cliquez ici)

Ponsonnet, M., 2011, "The Australian tradition of multilingualism and the post-colonial context", Sorosoro, Antoinre Launey (cliquez ici)

Ponsonnet, M., 2011, "The ideology of monolingualism in the Australian context", Sorosoro, Antoine Launey (cliquez ici)

Ponsonnet, M., 2009, "Aspects de la subjectivité intellectuelle en Dalabon (Sud-Ouest Arnhem, Australie). Trad. française. ", Texto!, François Laurent