Baptiste Loreau-Unger
PhD candidate

About

Hi! I am Baptiste Loreau-Unger, a first-year PhD candidate (from the 5-year FrontCog graduate program) at École normale supérieure (Paris, France), in the Department of Cognitive Studies. Before that, I studied mathematics and linguistics at École normale supérieure Paris–Saclay and Université Paris Cité (including the Logos Master’s program).

My current research is in formal semantics of natural language, with Salvador Mascarenhas. Some of my interests:

I also have a foot in formal inflectional morphology, from my time working with Berthold Crysmann at Université Paris Cité.

Disentangling morphomic splits in Limbu. With Berthold Crysmann. Lingue e linguaggio, Rivista semestrale 2/2024, pp. 267-290. [doi: 10.1418/115295]
Toward a topological theory of the aspectual conceptualization of events. Master’s thesis in mathematics and linguistics, Université Paris Cité. [lingbuzz]
- My master’s thesis uses mathematical objects from general topology to formalize lexical aspect in linguistics – the fact that we can present events as unfolding in different ways.

Too much and too little in Limbu conjugation: Syncretism, uninflectedness and dependent multiple exponence in Information-based Morphology. Master’s thesis in linguistics, Université Paris Cité. [lingbuzz]

My first name is Baptiste and my last names are Loreau-Unger.

French pronunciation: /batist loʁo œ̃ʒɛʁ/
Possible anglicization: bə-TEEST lə-ROH ən-ZHAIR (or ən-JAIR) /bəˈtiːst ləˈɹoʊ ənˈ(d)ʒɛəɹ/