Florian Lionnet

Assistant Professor of Linguistics in the Council of the Humanities

Florian Lionnet outside Henry House

Florian Lionnet (Ph.D., UC Berkeley, 2016) joined Princeton as an Assistant Professor of Linguistics in the Spring of 2017. His research focuses on sound systems (phonetics/phonology), typology, areal and historical linguistics, as well as language documentation and description, with a specific focus on African and Oceanic languages. He is currently involved in research on understudied and endangered languages in southern Chad and in New Caledonia, which involves yearly field trips.

Read his full biography on the Program in Linguistics website.

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