Guillaume Segerer

Guillaume Segerer (born July 13, 1965, in Paris, France^[1]) is a French linguist who specializes in Niger-Congo languages, especially the Atlantic languages.

Guillaume Segerer
Nationality	French
Occupation	Linguist
Academic background
Alma mater	Sorbonne Nouvelle University Paris 3
Thesis	Description de la langue bijogo (Guinée Bissau) (2000)
Doctoral advisor	France Cloarec-Heiss
Academic work
Discipline	Linguistics
Sub-discipline	Descriptive linguistics, historical linguistics, linguistic typology
Institutions	French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)
Website	www.guillaumesegerer.fr

Segerer is known for his historical-comparative work on the Atlantic languages.^[2]

Education

In 2000, Segerer obtained his doctorate from Sorbonne Nouvelle University Paris 3. His doctorate thesis was a description of the Bijogo language of Guinea-Bissau.^[3]

He has been employed at the CNRS since 2001, where he mostly worked at LLACAN (Langage, langues et cultures d'Afrique [fr]), a Unité mixte de recherche (UMR) within the CNRS. Since 2007, Segerer has been employed as a full researcher at LLACAN.^[4][5]

Projects

Some projects that Segerer has worked on include the following.^[6]

• RefLex (Reference Lexicon of the languages of Africa)^[7]
• Web-Ball (Web Bibliography of African Languages and Linguistics)^[8]
• Web-Cal (Web Catalogue of African Languages)^[9]