Nicholas Tournadre

Nicolas Tournadre is a French linguist and professor of linguistics at the University of Provence. A specialist in Tibetic languages, he has researched ergative morphosyntax, grammatical semantics, tense, aspect, mood, and evidentiality. He has conducted fieldwork across the Tibetan Plateau, Himalayas, and Karakoram, and has taught at INALCO, Paris 8 University, and the University of Virginia. In 2000, he received the CNRS Bronze Medal.

With Sangda Dorje, Tournadre co-authored Manual of Standard Tibetan: Language and Civilization, an introduction to spoken and written standard Tibetan with an appendix on Classical Literary Tibetan. His other scholarly publications address Tibetan linguistics, evidentiality, typology, and the classification of Tibetic languages.