Baptiste Loreau-Unger’s homepage
PhD candidate
Figure 1: (at a bar in Amsterdam)
About
Hi! I am Baptiste Loreau-Unger, a PhD candidate in cognitive science based in Paris.
I’m in the second year of the 5-year FrontCog graduate program at École normale supérieure, 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).
Contact
Main projects
- Syntactic mechanisms in neural networks (with Yair Lakretz and Pablo Diego-Simón)
- Representation of sequences (auditory, geometric, symbolic; with Fosca Al Roumi, Salvador Mascarenhas and Barbu Revencu)
Other interests
- Formal semantics
- Anaphoric mechanisms in language, thought, and non-linguistic cognition
- Conditionals, counterfactuals, and modal subordination
- Lexical aspect
- Formal inflectional morphology (ongoing collaboration with Berthold Crysmann at LLF and Université Paris Cité)
- Cognitive science
- Philosophy of language and mind
- Applications of category theory to cognitive science
Articles, manuscripts and presentations
2025
- Syncretism across roles.
Joint work presented by Berthold Crysmann.
8–10 Oct 2025
International Symposium of Morphology 2025 (ISMo 2025), Lille, France.
[slides]
2024
- Toward a topological theory of the aspectual conceptualization of events.
17 Dec 2024
14th Paris–Amsterdam–London Logic Meeting of Young Researchers (PALLMYR 14), Amsterdam, Netherlands.
[slides] - Disentangling morphomic splits in Limbu.
With Berthold Crysmann.
2024.
Lingue e linguaggio, Rivista semestrale XXIII.2/2024, pp. 267–290.
[lingbuzz] [paper] - Toward a topological theory of the aspectual conceptualization of events.
2024.
Master’s thesis in mathematics and linguistics, Université Paris Cité.
[lingbuzz]- This 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.
- Pseudo-Pāṇinian splits.
Joint work presented by Berthold Crysmann.
28–30 Aug 2024
21th International Morphology Meeting (IMM 21), Vienna, Austria.
[abstract] [slides] - The interplay of morphotactics and underspecification: Overabundance in
Athpare.
Joint work presented by Berthold Crysmann.
21–24 Aug 2024
“Determinism Assumption in Morphology” workshop at the 57th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 2024), Helsinki, Finland.
[abstract] [slides]
2023
- Disentangling morphomic splits in Limbu.
With Berthold Crysmann.
13–15 Sep 2023
International Symposium of Morphology 2023 (ISMo 2023), Nancy, France.
[abstract] [slides] - Systematically investigating syncretism in multidimensional inflectional
systems: generating views into transitive verb paradigms.
4–6 Sep 2023
26th Himalayan Languages Symposium (HLS 26), Paris, France.
[abstract] [slides] - Too much and too little in Limbu conjugation: Syncretism, uninflectedness and
dependent multiple exponence in Information-based Morphology.
2023.
Master’s thesis in linguistics, Université Paris Cité.
[lingbuzz]- This thesis uses logical/mathematical tools to analyze conjugation in Limbu, a language of the Kiranti family, from Nepal.
- Limbu conjugation is interesting because it has irregularities: it uses some markers in unexpected places (syncretism), and it does not use other markers in places where they would be expected (uninflectedness).
- I show that those irregularities in Limbu follow certain principles. These principles are probably used by speakers to learn and remember Limbu conjugation more easily.
- But not all mathematically explicit theories of conjugation can express those principles. I show that our theory of conjugation, Information-based Morphology (IbM), does have concepts that are flexible enough to directly express those principles.
- Thanks to this fact, IbM can reflect the structure of the Limbu conjugation system at least as well as other theories of conjugation.
Where to find me
CV
[coming soon]
My name
My first name is Baptiste and my last names are Loreau-Unger.
- French pronunciation:
/batist loʁo œ̃ʒɛʁ/ - Possible anglicization: bə-TEEST lə-ROH UN-gər
/bəˈtiːst ləˈɹoʊ ˈʌŋ.ɡəɹ/