Academic CV Rebecca Grollemund Curriculum Vitae Evolutionary Biology Group Telephone: + 44 (0) 118 378 7535 School of Biological Sciences Fax: + 44 (0) 118 378 0180 Philip Lyle Building, Level 4 [email protected] University of Reading http://www.evolution.reading.ac.uk/~vy904310/ Reading, RG6 6BX http://www.evolution.reading.ac.uk/ United Kingdom Updated 09/2015 ACTUAL POSITION 2012-Pres. Postdoctoral Research Fellow Evolutionary Biology Group, University of Reading http://www.evolution.reading.ac.uk Leader: Professor Mark Pagel RESEARCH AREAS African languages (Niger-Congo including Bantu languages), linguistics, phonetics and phonology, historical linguistics, phylogenetic classifications, evolution of languages EDUCATION 2012 Ph.D. in Linguistics Title: Nouvelles approches en classification: Application aux langues bantu du Nord- Ouest , Laboratory Dynamique du Langage, CNRS/Université Lyon 2, France, with highest honour (Very honourable with unanimous jury congratulations). Members of the jury: Gérard Philippson (president), Jean-Marie Hombert (supervisor), Koen Bostoen (examiner), Alain Franc (examiner), Lolke van der Veen and Charles Doumenge. 2006 Master in Linguistics (M.A. equivalent) Title: Les Okande du Gabon, locuteurs d'une langue en danger (langue bantu du groupe B30) , Université Lumière Lyon 2, France, with Honours. Supervisor: Lolke van der Veen (PR1, Université Lumière Lyon 2). 2004 Licence in Linguistics (B.A. equivalent) Université Lumière Lyon 2, France. 1 PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT 2009-2012 Research Assistant Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage (Lyon, France). September 2009 to September 2012. CLHASS project , ( Contribution de la Linguistique à l'Histoire de l'Afrique Sub- Saharienne ). Supervisor: Jean-Marie Hombert (DRCE, CNRS) http://www.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/clhass/ . 2006-2009 Teaching Assistant in Linguistics Lyon 2 University (Lyon, France). September 2006 to June 2009. Courses Taught: General linguistics and French Linguistics. 2006-2007 Research Assistant Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage (Lyon, France). September 2006 to March 2007. UNIDIA project (DIAchronic UNIversals ). Supervisor: Mahé Ben Hamed (CR2, CNRS), http://www.diadm.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/unidia/index.php . 2006-2006 Research Assistant Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage (Lyon, France). July 2006 to August 2006. ALGAB project (Atlas Linguistique du GABon ). Supervisor: Lolke Van der Veen (PR1, University of Lyon 2). AWARDS AND RESEARCH GRANTS 2007 Explora' doc Grant from the Rhône-Alpes region (France) 2006 AALLED (Afrique Amérique Latine Langues en Danger) Grant for fieldwork from the ANR (National Agency for Research) project FIELDWORK EXPERIENCE June-August 2008 Fieldwork in Gabon, data collected for Gepinzi (Bantu language, belonging to the B30 group) July-August 2007 Fieldwork in Gabon, data collected for Gepinzi (B30) and Galwa (B10) (Bantu languages) July-August 2006 Fieldwork in Gabon, data collected for Simba and Gepinzi (Bantu languages, belonging to the B30 group) July-August 2005 Fieldwork in Gabon, data collected for Kande (Bantu language, belonging to the B30 group) 2 INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS 2014-Pres. Advisor in the Leverhulme Bantu Variation Project entitled “ Morphosyn- tactic variation in Bantu: Typology, contact and change ”. Supervisor: Professor Lutz Marten (SOAS, London) 2013-Pres. Member of the KongoKing project: an interdisciplinary approach to the origins of the Kongo kingdom. http://www.kongoking.org/ Supervisor: Professor Koen Bostoen (University of Ghent) 2012-Pres. Member of the Niger-Congo project: Towards Proto-Niger-Congo: Com- parison and Reconstruction. http://llacan.vjf.cnrs.fr/fichiers/nigercongo/ Supervisor: Professor Valentin Vydrin (INALCO, France) 2010-Pres. Member of the RefLex project: Reference Lexicon for African languages. http://www.reflex.cnrs.fr Supervisor: Guillaume Segerer (CNRS, LLACAN, France) 2009-Pres. Member of the CLHASS project: Contribution de la Linguistique à l'His- toire de l'Afrique Sub-Saharienne. www.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/clhass Supervisor: Jean-Marie Hombert (DRCE, CNRS, France) OTHER INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITES 2014 Co-organisation of a workshop " Language diversity and history: new interdisciplinary perspectives " with Annemarie Verkerk (University of Reading) and Simon Branford (University of Reading), during the 47th Annual Meeting of the So- cietas Linguistica Europaea (http://www.sle2014.eu/ ), Poznan, 11-14 September 2014. 2013 Co-organisation of the workshop “ New interdisciplinary perspectives on Bantu expansion ” (http://bantu5.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/4 ) with Jean- Marie Hombert (CNRS, Lyon), within the Conference Bantu 5 (5th International Con- ference on Bantu Languages), Paris, June 12-15, 2013. 3 PUBLICATIONS Edited book Atindogbé, G. and Grollemund, R. (eds) (to appear). "Relative clauses in some Came- roonian Languages: structure, function and semantism ". De Gruyter Mouton. Journals Grollemund, R., Hombert J.-M. & Branford, S. (forth.). Contacts within the North- Western Bantu area, a phylogenetic study. Journal of Language Contact . Grollemund, R., Branford, S., Bostoen, K., Meade, A., Venditti, C. & Pagel, M. (accept- ed). Bantu expansion shows that habitat alters the route and pace of human disper- sals. PNAS . de Schryver, G.-M., Grollemund, R., Branford, S. and Bostoen K. (forth.). Introducing a state-of-the-art phylogenetic classification of the Kikongo language cluster. Africana Linguistica , 21. Bostoen, K., Clist, B., Doumenge, C., Grollemund, R., Hombert, J.-M, Koni Muluwa, J. & Maley, J. 2015. Middle to Late Holocene Paleoclimatic Change and the Early Bantu Ex- pansion in the Rain Forests of West Central-Africa. Current Anthropology , 56:3, 354- 384. Bostoen, K., Grollemund, R. & Muluwa, J. 2013. Climate-induced vegetation dynamics and the Bantu expansion: evidence from Bantu names for pioneer trees (Elaeis guin- eensis, Canarium schweinfurthii and Musanga cecropioides). C.R. Geoscience , 345: 7-8, pp. 336-349. Grollemund, R. & Hombert, J.-M. 2012. Use of Plant Names for the Classification of the Bantu Languages of Gabon. In Connel, B. and Rolle, N. (eds) Selected Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference on African Linguistics . Somerville, MA, Cascadilla Proceedings Project, pp. 150-163. Chapters in books Philippson, G. & Grollemund, R. (forth.) Methods of Bantu historical language classifi- cation. In The Bantu Languages, Second Edition , Van de Velde, M. & Bostoen, K. (eds). London-New-York: Routledge Press. Grollemund, R., Branford, B., Hombert, J.-M. & Watters, J. (forth.) Towards a new phy- logenetic classification of Bantoid languages. In Towards Proto-Niger-Congo: Compari- son and Reconstruction , Watters, J. (ed.). Language Science Press. Hombert, J.-M & Grollemund, R., (in press). Phylogenetic Classification of Grassfields Languages. In Revealing structure: Finding patterns in grammars and using grammati- cal patterns to elucidate language. A Festschrift to honor Larry M. Hyman , Buckley, G., Crane, T. & Good, J. (eds). Stanford, California: CSLI Publications. 4 CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (invited presentations marked by *) 2015 *Grollemund, R., 2015, "TBA ", McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, 16th November 2015. Grollemund, R., Branford, S., Bostoen, K., Meade, A., Venditti, C. & Pagel, M., 2015, " Bantu population dispersal throughout Africa shows preference for routes following the savannah ", World Congress of African Linguistics (WOCAL 8), Kyoto, Japan, 21-24 August 2015. Grollemund, R., Branford, S., Field, S., Hombert, J.-M., Pagel, M., 2015, " To- wards a new phylogeny of Niger-Congo languages ", World Congress of African Linguistics (WOCAL 8), Kyoto, Japan, 21-24 August 2015. Verkerk, A. & Grollemund, R., 2015, " Diachronic change in Niger-Congo noun class systems ", World Congress of African Linguistics (WOCAL 8), Kyoto, Japan, 21-24 August 2015. *Grollemund, R., 2015, " Bantu population dispersal throughout Africa shows preference for routes following familiar habitats ", Séminaire du Laboratoire Dy- namique du Langage, Lyon, 12th June 2015 *Grollemund, R., 2015, " Bantu expansion: genetic classification and emergence of agriculture ", Biological Anthropology Seminar Series, University College Lon- don (UCL), London, 17th March 2015 *Grollemund, R., 2015, " A phylogenetic classification of Bantu languages and its implications for ancient migration ", Cambridge Classics Research Seminar, Cambridge, 11th March 2015 2014 *Grollemund, R., " Bantu expansion: genetic classification and emergence of agriculture ", Biological Anthropology Seminar Talk, University College London (UCL), London, 9th December 2014. Grollemund, R., Branford, S., Meade, A., Venditti, C. & Pagel, M., " The Bantu Expansion: new routes, dates and evidence for punctuational change ", 47th An- nual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, workshop " Language diversi- ty and history: new interdisciplinary perspectives " (SLE 2014), Poznan, Poland, 11-14 September 2014. Verkerk, A., Branford, S. & Grollemund, R., "Language diversity and history: new interdisciplinary perspectives ", 47th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, workshop "Language diversity and history: new interdisciplinary per- spectives" (SLE 2014), Poznan, Poland, 11-14 September 2014. 5 de Schryver, G.-M., Branford, S., Grollemund, R. & Bostoen, K., " Establishing the rate of language change in the Lower Congo Region: a phylogenetic approach to the diachronic Kikongo corpus ", 47th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguis-