About Françoise Ozanne-Rivierre
Lived 1941 – 2007 (aged 66). Françoise Ozanne-Rivierre was a French linguist.
Françoise Ozanne-Rivierre (1941–2007) was a French linguist based at LACITO–CNRS, internationally known for her work on the languages of New Caledonia.
She completed her doctorate in linguistics in 1973, with a dissertation titled Le iaai, langue mélanésienne d'Ouvéa (Nouvelle-Calédonie), at Université Paris III, where she was a student of Haudricourt and Hagège.
She published extensively on several New Caledonian languages, especially Iaai; the various languages of Hienghène (Fwâi, Pije, Jawe, Nemi); Fagauvea; and Nyelâyu. She was known for her work on Austronesian comparative linguistics, in particular for the application of the comparative method to the study of Oceanic languages.
Her husband, (1938-2018), was also a linguist working on the languages of New Caledonia.
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Françoise Ozanne-Rivierre was born on 2 January 1941 in Saint-Julien-sur-Calonne.
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Françoise Ozanne-Rivierre died on 11 November 2007 in Montreuil.
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