Stéphane Robert (linguist)
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Stéphane Robert is a French linguist based at LLACAN (CNRS) who specializes in Information Structure and cognitive linguistic issues in African languages, especially Atlantic languages.
Stéphane Robert received her PhD in 1989 from the Université de Paris VII (félicitations du jury), under the direction of Antoine Culioli, with a dissertation entitled, Système verbal et énonciation en wolof.[1] In 1996 she received her Habilitation (félicitations du jury), at the Université de Paris VII UFR de Linguistique with a Habilitation thesis entitled, Réflexions sur la dynamique du sens et la structuration des énoncés.[2][3]
Robert has been a researcher at LLACAN (CNRS) since 1992, and has been a Research Director there since 1998.[4] She is best known for her work on the expression of focus in Wolof.[5]
