Dr Jean-Luc Chevillard

Jean-Luc Chevillard (b. 1956) is a researcher at the French "National Center for Scientific Research" (CNRS) and currently a member of the "Laboratoire d’Histoire des Théories Linguistiques" (HTL, UMR 7597 CNRS/Paris Diderot/Sorbonne Nouvelle). He has been for twelve years the editor of the bi-annual journal HEL ("Histoire Épistémologie Language"). The core component of his research is the study of the "History of Tamil Śāstric Literature", and the study of the linguistic corpus which is its literary counterpart. The list of his main publications can be found here. Between 2014 and 2019, he was in charge of the NETamil group C Tolkāppiyam.