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Michel Achard is a French linguist, and a professor and chairmen in the Department of Linguistics at Rice University in Houston, Texas. His research and work primarily focus on Cognitive Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition and Language pedagogy. Whilst studying at Aix-Marseille University in 1983, he achieved a BA Degree in English and American Languages and Literatures. After this, he moved to San Diego State University, where he achieved a Master of Arts degree in French Literature in 1987. He then transferred to University of California San Diego, where he received his Ph.D. in Linguistics in 1993.

Career
Ever since earning his Ph.D., Achard has had an extensive career in teaching in a variety of prestigious institutes, including University of Florida, Rice University, and Catholic University of Leuven.


 * 2014 - current: Professor with tenure. Department of Linguistics. Rice University.
 * 2013 - current: Chair Department of Linguistics. Rice University
 * Spring 2007: Visiting Professor. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
 * 2006-2014: Associate Professor with tenure. Department of Linguistics. Rice University.
 * 2003-2006: Chair. Department of French Studies. Rice University
 * 2002-2003: Interim Director: Center for the Study of Languages. Rice University.
 * 2000-2006: Associate Professor with tenure. Department of French Studies. Rice University. Also affiliated to the Linguistics Department.
 * 1997-2000: Assistant Professor. Department of French Studies. Rice University.
 * 1993-1997: Assistant Professor. Department of Romance Languages and Literatures (RLL) and Linguistics Program, University of Florida.
 * 1988-1993: French Instructor. Language Program, UCSD.
 * 1988: English as a Second Language Instructor. College Prep Language Institute.
 * 1988: French Instructor. Department of Foreign Languages, Mira Costa Community College.
 * 1987: French Instructor. Department of Foreign Languages, Grossmont Community College.
 * 1985-1987: French Instructor. Department of French and Italian, San Diego State University.
 * 1984-1985: Post Graduate Visiting Lecturer. Department of French and Italian, San Diego State University.
 * 1993-1997: Assistant Professor. Department of Romance Languages and Literatures (RLL) and Linguistics Program, University of Florida.
 * 1988-1993: French Instructor. Language Program, UCSD.
 * 1988: English as a Second Language Instructor. College Prep Language Institute.
 * 1988: French Instructor. Department of Foreign Languages, Mira Costa Community College.
 * 1987: French Instructor. Department of Foreign Languages, Grossmont Community College.
 * 1985-1987: French Instructor. Department of French and Italian, San Diego State University.
 * 1984-1985: Post Graduate Visiting Lecturer. Department of French and Italian, San Diego State University.
 * 1988: French Instructor. Department of Foreign Languages, Mira Costa Community College.
 * 1987: French Instructor. Department of Foreign Languages, Grossmont Community College.
 * 1985-1987: French Instructor. Department of French and Italian, San Diego State University.
 * 1984-1985: Post Graduate Visiting Lecturer. Department of French and Italian, San Diego State University.
 * 1985-1987: French Instructor. Department of French and Italian, San Diego State University.
 * 1984-1985: Post Graduate Visiting Lecturer. Department of French and Italian, San Diego State University.
 * 1984-1985: Post Graduate Visiting Lecturer. Department of French and Italian, San Diego State University.

Published Books

 * 2015. Impersonals and other defocusing constructions in French. Human Cognitive Processing Series 50. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
 * 2006. With Gitte Kristiansen, René Dirven, and Francisco Ruiz de Mendoza (eds.): Applications of Cognitive Linguistics: Foundations and Fields of Application. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
 * 2004a. With Suzanne Kemmer (eds.): Language, Culture, and Mind. Stanford: CSLI.
 * 2004b. With Susanne Neimeier (eds.): Cognitive Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition, and Foreign Language Teaching. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
 * 2000. With Susanne Neimeier (eds.): Language Acquisition. Special Issue of Cognitive Linguistics. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
 * 1998. Representation of Cognitive Structures: Syntax and Semantics of French Sentential Complements. Cognitive Linguistics Research Series 11. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
 * 1993. With Rodgers, Barnes, and Santore. Test Bank to accompany the Second Edition of Deux Mondes. Mc Graw Hill.
 * 2000. With Susanne Neimeier (eds.): Language Acquisition. Special Issue of Cognitive Linguistics. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
 * 1998. Representation of Cognitive Structures: Syntax and Semantics of French Sentential Complements. Cognitive Linguistics Research Series 11. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
 * 1993. With Rodgers, Barnes, and Santore. Test Bank to accompany the Second Edition of Deux Mondes. Mc Graw Hill.
 * 1998. Representation of Cognitive Structures: Syntax and Semantics of French Sentential Complements. Cognitive Linguistics Research Series 11. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
 * 1993. With Rodgers, Barnes, and Santore. Test Bank to accompany the Second Edition of Deux Mondes. Mc Graw Hill.
 * 1993. With Rodgers, Barnes, and Santore. Test Bank to accompany the Second Edition of Deux Mondes. Mc Graw Hill.

2000-Current

 * 2010b. Le sens cataphorique de ceci, cela, et ça In Frank Neveu, Valelia Muni Toke, Jacques Durand, Thomas Klingler, Lorenza Mondada, and Sophie Prévost (éds.). Congrès Mondial de Linguistique Française - CMLF 2010 : 1607-1617.
 * 2010a. Fields and settings: French il and ça impersonals in copular complement constructions. Cognitive Linguistics 21-3: 441-498.
 * 2009b. Existence and evaluation: French il and ça impersonals. In Patricia Sutcliffe, Lois Stanford, and Arle Lommel (eds.). LACUS Forum 35: Language and Linguistics in North America 1608-2008: Diversity and Convergence: 1-11. Houston, TX: LACUS Forum.
 * 2009a. The Distribution of French Intransitive Predicates. Linguistics 47.3: 513-558.
 * 2008c. Verbes de rupture simples et réfléchis: Deux constructions intransitives. In J Durand, B Habert, and B Laks (éds.) Congrès Mondial de Linguistique Française - CMLF'08 : 2377-2388”
 * 2008b. Another Look at French Split Intransitivity. In Andrea Tyler (ed.): Language in the Context of Use: Cognitive Approaches to Language and Language Learning. Mouton de Gruyter, 269-285.
 * 2008a. Teaching Construal: Cognitive Pedagogical Grammar. In Peter Robinson, and Nick Ellis (eds.): Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 432-456.
 * 2007b. Complementation. Dirk Geeraerts and Hubert Cuyckens (eds.). Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics. Oxford University Press. 782-802.
 * 2007a. Usage-Based Semantics: Body Parts with Three French Breaking Verbs. Collocations and Idioms 1. Joensuu: Joensuu University Press, 1-13.
 * 2004a. Introduction. In Michel Achard and Susanne Neimeier (eds.): Cognitive Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition, and Foreign Language Teaching. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1-13.
 * 2004b. Cognitive Grammar and Communicative Grammar Instruction. In Michel Achard and Susanne Neimeier (eds.): Cognitive Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition, and Foreign Language Teaching. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 167-197.
 * 2003. Cognitive Grammar. In William Frawley (editor in chief): International Encyclopedia of Linguistics second edition. Oxford University Press. Vol 1.
 * 2002a. The Meaning and Distribution of French Mood Inflections. In Frank Brisard (ed.): Grounding: The epistemic footing of deixis and reference. Cognitive Linguistics Research Series 21. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
 * 2002b. Causation, Constructions, and Language Ecology: An Example from French. In Masayoshi Shibatani (ed.): The Grammar of Causation and Causative Manipulation. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: Johns Benjamins, 127-156.
 * 2001a. The Syntax of French Raising Constructions. In Alan Cienki, Barbara Luka, and Michael Smith (eds.): Conceptual and Discourse Factors in Linguistic Structure, 1-26. Stanford: CSLI.
 * 2001b. French ça and the Dynamics of Reference. In Ruth Brend, Alan Melby, and Arle Lommel (eds.): LACUS Forum 27: Speaking and Comprehending, 49-62. LACUS.
 * 2000a. The Distribution of French Raising Constructions. In Proceedings of the 26th Berkeley Linguistics Society, 1-15. Berkeley, California.
 * 2000b. Construal and Complementation in French.. In Kaoru Horie (ed.): Complementation: Cognitive and Functional Perspectives. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 91-120.
 * 2000c. Selección de Modo en Construcciones Oracionales de Complemento. In Ricardo Maldonado (ed.): Revista Española de Linguistica Aplicada. Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro: Asociación Española de Lingüística Aplicada, 153-175.
 * 2004b. Cognitive Grammar and Communicative Grammar Instruction. In Michel Achard and Susanne Neimeier (eds.): Cognitive Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition, and Foreign Language Teaching. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 167-197.
 * 2003. Cognitive Grammar. In William Frawley (editor in chief): International Encyclopedia of Linguistics second edition. Oxford University Press. Vol 1.
 * 2002a. The Meaning and Distribution of French Mood Inflections. In Frank Brisard (ed.): Grounding: The epistemic footing of deixis and reference. Cognitive Linguistics Research Series 21. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
 * 2002b. Causation, Constructions, and Language Ecology: An Example from French. In Masayoshi Shibatani (ed.): The Grammar of Causation and Causative Manipulation. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: Johns Benjamins, 127-156.
 * 2001a. The Syntax of French Raising Constructions. In Alan Cienki, Barbara Luka, and Michael Smith (eds.): Conceptual and Discourse Factors in Linguistic Structure, 1-26. Stanford: CSLI.
 * 2001b. French ça and the Dynamics of Reference. In Ruth Brend, Alan Melby, and Arle Lommel (eds.): LACUS Forum 27: Speaking and Comprehending, 49-62. LACUS.
 * 2000a. The Distribution of French Raising Constructions. In Proceedings of the 26th Berkeley Linguistics Society, 1-15. Berkeley, California.
 * 2000b. Construal and Complementation in French.. In Kaoru Horie (ed.): Complementation: Cognitive and Functional Perspectives. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 91-120.
 * 2000c. Selección de Modo en Construcciones Oracionales de Complemento. In Ricardo Maldonado (ed.): Revista Española de Linguistica Aplicada. Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro: Asociación Española de Lingüística Aplicada, 153-175.
 * 2001a. The Syntax of French Raising Constructions. In Alan Cienki, Barbara Luka, and Michael Smith (eds.): Conceptual and Discourse Factors in Linguistic Structure, 1-26. Stanford: CSLI.
 * 2001b. French ça and the Dynamics of Reference. In Ruth Brend, Alan Melby, and Arle Lommel (eds.): LACUS Forum 27: Speaking and Comprehending, 49-62. LACUS.
 * 2000a. The Distribution of French Raising Constructions. In Proceedings of the 26th Berkeley Linguistics Society, 1-15. Berkeley, California.
 * 2000b. Construal and Complementation in French.. In Kaoru Horie (ed.): Complementation: Cognitive and Functional Perspectives. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 91-120.
 * 2000c. Selección de Modo en Construcciones Oracionales de Complemento. In Ricardo Maldonado (ed.): Revista Española de Linguistica Aplicada. Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro: Asociación Española de Lingüística Aplicada, 153-175.
 * 2000b. Construal and Complementation in French.. In Kaoru Horie (ed.): Complementation: Cognitive and Functional Perspectives. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 91-120.
 * 2000c. Selección de Modo en Construcciones Oracionales de Complemento. In Ricardo Maldonado (ed.): Revista Española de Linguistica Aplicada. Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro: Asociación Española de Lingüística Aplicada, 153-175.
 * 2000c. Selección de Modo en Construcciones Oracionales de Complemento. In Ricardo Maldonado (ed.): Revista Española de Linguistica Aplicada. Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro: Asociación Española de Lingüística Aplicada, 153-175.
 * 2000c. Selección de Modo en Construcciones Oracionales de Complemento. In Ricardo Maldonado (ed.): Revista Española de Linguistica Aplicada. Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro: Asociación Española de Lingüística Aplicada, 153-175.

1990-2000

 * 1999. French in the 21st century. Orbis Linguae. Center for the Studies of Languages. Rice University
 * 1997. A Cognitive Grammar View of Second Language Acquisition. Journal of Intensive English Studies 11: 157-177.
 * 1996a. French Modals and Speaker Control. In Adele Goldberg (ed.): Conceptual Structure in Discourse and Language. Stanford: CSLI, 1-15.
 * 1996b. Two Causation / Perception Constructions in French. Cognitive Linguistics 7: 315-357.
 * 1996c. With Maura Velazquez-Castillo: Functional Linguistics and Communicative Grammar Instruction. Studi Italiani di Linguistica Teorica e applicata XXV: 313-336.
 * 1996d. Perspective and Syntactic Realization: French Sentential Complements. Linguistics 34: 1159-1198.
 * 1995. Complement Construal in French: a Cognitive Perspective. In Eugene Casad (ed.): Cognitive Linguistics in the Redwoods. Proceedings of the ICLA conference. Berlin,New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 569-608.
 * 1993. French Causative Constructions, Word Order Following Faire, Laisser, and Forcer. Proceedings of the 19th Berkeley Linguistics Society. Berkeley: University of California, 1-12.
 * 1990. Lenition in Jamul Diegueño. Proceedings of the 1990 Hokan-Penutian Languages Workshop. Occasional Papers in Linguistics 15. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University, 11-23.
 * 1996d. Perspective and Syntactic Realization: French Sentential Complements. Linguistics 34: 1159-1198.
 * 1995. Complement Construal in French: a Cognitive Perspective. In Eugene Casad (ed.): Cognitive Linguistics in the Redwoods. Proceedings of the ICLA conference. Berlin,New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 569-608.
 * 1993. French Causative Constructions, Word Order Following Faire, Laisser, and Forcer. Proceedings of the 19th Berkeley Linguistics Society. Berkeley: University of California, 1-12.
 * 1990. Lenition in Jamul Diegueño. Proceedings of the 1990 Hokan-Penutian Languages Workshop. Occasional Papers in Linguistics 15. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University, 11-23.
 * 1993. French Causative Constructions, Word Order Following Faire, Laisser, and Forcer. Proceedings of the 19th Berkeley Linguistics Society. Berkeley: University of California, 1-12.
 * 1990. Lenition in Jamul Diegueño. Proceedings of the 1990 Hokan-Penutian Languages Workshop. Occasional Papers in Linguistics 15. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University, 11-23.
 * 1990. Lenition in Jamul Diegueño. Proceedings of the 1990 Hokan-Penutian Languages Workshop. Occasional Papers in Linguistics 15. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University, 11-23.
 * 1990. Lenition in Jamul Diegueño. Proceedings of the 1990 Hokan-Penutian Languages Workshop. Occasional Papers in Linguistics 15. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University, 11-23.