Training and professional background
Research interests
Scientific activities
Administration activities
Fieldwork
Awards and research grants
Participation in research projects
Teaching
Other international activities
Main publications and conferences
TRAINING AND PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
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| Training:
- 2020 - Currently Ph.D in Linguistics
University Lumière - Lyon 2, Dynamique Du Langage, Doctoral school 3LA
Title: Etude typologique de l'expression de la Trajectoire [Typological study of Path expression]
Directed by: Alice Vittrant (DDL-CNRS/Université Lyon 2)
- 2017 - 2019 Master's degree in Linguistics
Aix-Marseille Université
Dissertation: Grammaticalisation des verbes directionnels en thaï [Grammaticalisation of directional verbs in Thai]
Directed by: Alice Vittrant (DDL-CNRS/Aix-Marseille Université)
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| Professional background:
- December 2019 Transcription
MPF Project (Multicultural Paris French)
- September - December 2018 Tutoring
Aix-Marseille Université, Department of Linguistics
- May - September 2017 Data management
CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research)
Digitalisation, segmentation and normalisation of West African linguistic data (Pulaar, Wolof)
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RESEARCH INTERESTS
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| South-East Asia linguistic area: Tai languages, Central Thai, Shan
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| Morphosyntax: classifiers and class terms, serial verb constructions, valency and diathesis
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| Spatial domain: typology of Path, Dynamic Deixis, fictive motion |
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SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES
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| EuroSEAS 2022: Panel with Léa Mouton. Language and Society in Southeast Asia: Communities, politics, and planning .
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| Summer school Annotations, 30 May - 3 June 2022, Banyuls-sur-Mer (France). GdR LIFT. |
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| Seminar "Semantic Typology" (DDL)
- 2021: Path, Manner, Deixis : Towards a semantic typology of Motion events
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| LCT Master seminar (Aix-Marseille Université)
- 2022: Polyfonctionnalité en Asie du Sud-Est: L'emprunt dans les chemins de grammaticalisation [Polyfunctionality in South-East Asia: Loans in grammaticalization paths] (with Léa Mouton)
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| Seminar Crosslinguistic regularity in diachronic semantic change: Typology and contact in Asia (EHESS, 2022)
- Motion in Tai and (S)EA languages: Motion and Associated Motion
- Possession in Tai: Central Thai, Lao, and Dai Lü
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| Seminar Areality of polysemy and semantic change in the languages of China and South-East Asia (EHESS, 2021)
- Object-marking in Tai languages
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| Workshop PHC Franco-Siam : The linguistic landscape of Chiang Mai (DDL/Lyon 2, 2024)
- Language policies in Thailand
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| Scientific committee of Emerging Topics in Typology (ETT), Stockholm 2024 |
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ADMINISTRATION ACTIVITIES
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| 2021 - Currently
Member of the Lab board |
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FIELDWORK
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| Thailand, November 2022
Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Bang Saen
Motion description in Tai languages
Central Thai, Southern Thai, Isan Thai, Kam Mueang |
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| Thailand, October 2023
Mae Sot, Chiang Mai
Motion description in Shan (Tai Yai) |
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AWARDS AND RESEARCH GRANTS
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| Ph.D Scholarship 2020 - 2023 :
Projet SpOTy (Spatial Ontology and Typology)
ASLAN (Advanced Studies on LANguage complexity), Université de Lyon
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PARTICIPATION IN RESEARCH PROJECTS
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| SALTA Project (Spatial Asymmetries across Languages: a Typological Approach)
ANR (National Research Agency)
Coordinators: Benjamin Fagard (LATTICE), Christine Lamarre (CRLAO/INALCO), Anetta Kopecka (DDL/Lyon 2), Alice Vittrant (DDL/Lyon 2)
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| SpOTy project (Spatial Ontology and Typology)
ASLAN, Université de Lyon
Coordinators: Alice Vittrant (DDL/Lyon 2), Pierre-Antoine Champin (LIRIS)
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| Hubert Curien (PHC) SIAM Programme
The linguistic landscape of Chiang Mai : Indigenous and Diaspora Languages
Coordinators: Alice Vittrant (DDL/Lyon 2), Mathias Jenny (Chiang Mai University)
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TEACHING
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| Contemporary French for Speaking
2022 - 2023, Winter semester
Burapha University (Thailand), Bachelor in French Studies, 4th year |
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| Syntax (tutorial class)
2021 - 2022, Spring semester
Aix-Marseille Université, Licence 2, Department of Linguistics |
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| Methodology (tutorial class)
2021 - 2022, Spring semester
Université Lumière - Lyon 2, Licence 1 ’Language & Communication’ |
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OTHER INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES
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| EuroSEAS 2022 : Support team |
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MAIN PUBLICATIONS AND CONFERENCES
SHOW LONG VERSION / SHORT VERSION
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PhDs and master thesis
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Seifen, K., 2019, "Grammaticalisation des verbes directionnels en thaï", Mémoire de Master 2, Sciences du Langage, Faculté ALLSH, Aix-Marseille Université, Aix-en-Provence |
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Chapters in books
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Seifen, K., 2023, "La préparation des données pour une typologie et une ontologie de l’expression du
déplacement", in Étudier le Langage à l’Ère Numérique - Actes des 25èmes Rencontres des Jeunes Chercheurs (RJC) en Sciences du Langage, Carmelo, A., Caillol, C., Morin, C., Velasquez Perez, M. & Zhao, C. (eds), HAL, pp. 28-45 |
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Journals
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Seifen, K. & Bunkham, N., 2022, "Apport des corpus linguistiques: Étude de "aller" et "venir" en français et en thaï", Moussons, 40:2, pp. 65-90 |
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Invited presentations
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Mouton, L. & Seifen, K., 2022, "Polyfonctionnalité en Asie du Sud-Est : l'emprunt dans les chemins de grammaticalisation", Journée d'étude « L'emprunt lexical : quoi, pourquoi, comment et avec quelles conséquences ? », Université Aix-Marseille, 19 avril 2022 |
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Conference presentations
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Vittrant, A., Jenny, M., Apiwong, T., Rattanapitak, A., Tin, H., Voisin, S., Wilson, A., Chaiyaros, P., Seifen, K. & Sinsurin, B., 2024, "Visualizing Myanmar communities in Chiang Mai past and present", Myanmar Borderlands Conference, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, 17-19/06/2024 |
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Seifen, K., 2024, "Motion expression in Shan compared to Burmese and Thai", 4th International Conference Burma/Myanmar Studies (ICBMS4), Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, 2-4/08/2024 |
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Vittrant, A., Seifen, K. & Champin, P.A., 2023, "Expression of Goal and Source in Burmese: Is there an asymmetry?", 56th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics (ICSTLL), Bangkok, 10-12/10/2023 |
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Seifen, K., Vittrant, A. & Champin, P.A., 2023, "Ontologie ou le traitement de données pour une typologie du déplacement", glose2023 : Corpus Glosés: de la construction à l'exploitation automatique, Paris, France, 28/06/2023 |
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Mouton, L. & Seifen, K., 2022, "Voice constructions in Southeast Asian Languages: Thai and Black Hmong examples", SEALS 31, Hawaii, 18-20 / 06 (poster) |
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