Launey, Michel

Michel Launey, now retired, was a professor at the Universite Denis Diderot, Paris and the Institut de Recherches pour le Developpement, Cayenne. He was a visiting professor at the Universidad de Guadalajara, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico and Yale University, among others. His other books include Introduction a la langue et a la literature azteques (the French edition of this book, published in 1979), Une grammaire omnipredicative (1994) and Awna Parikwaki: Introduction a la langue palikur de Guyane et de l'Amapa (2003).