1987, Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics, Dean's Honour List, McGill University, Canada

2004-2006, Chair, Department of General Linguistics, United Arab Emirates University 

2006-present, Professor of Linguistics, Department of English Language & Linguistics, Kuwait University, Kuwait 
2004-2006, Professor of Linguistics and Chair, Department of General Linguistics, United Arab Emirates University, UAE
2000-2004, Professor of Linguistics, Department of English Language & Literature, United Arab Emirates University, UAE
1999-2000, Professor of Linguistics, Department of Linguistics & Language Teaching, University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada
1994-1999, Associate Professor of Linguistics, Department of Linguistics & Language Teaching, University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada
1992-1994, Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Department of Linguistics & Language Teaching, University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada
1988-1992, Researcher, Department of Linguistics & Language Teaching, University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada
1986-1998, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Linguistics, University of British Columbia, Canada

Phonology, Morphology, Onomastics, Field Methods

Phonetics, Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Semantics, Ethnolinguistics 

Selected publications: 
 

Chamora, Berhanu, Jean-Francois Prunet & Sharon Rose (2023) “Inor group,” The Oxford handbook of Ethiopian languages, Ronny Meyer, Bedilu Wakjira, & Zelealem Leyew (Eds.), Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 531-553.  

Almuhanna, Amin & Jean-Francois Prunet (2019) “From classical to modern Arab names and back,” Anthropological Linguistics 61.4, 405-458. 

Almuhanna, Amin & Jean-Francois Prunet (2015) “Numeric codes in the Arabian Peninsula: An onomastic device for the digital age,” Anthropological Linguistics 57.3, 314-339.

Prunet, Jean-Francois & Ali Idrissi (2014) “Overlapping morphologies in Arabic hypocoristics,” The form of structure, the structure of form: Essays in honor of Jean Lowenstamm, Sabrina Bendjaballah, Noam Faust, Mohamed Lahrouchi, & Nicola Lampitelli (Eds.), John Benjamins, Amsterdam, pp. 177-192. 

Beland, Renee, Jean-Francois Prunet, & Isabelle Peretz (2009) “The sound of mute vowels in auditory word-stem completion,” Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 38, 415-434.

Idrissi, Ali, Jean-Francois Prunet & Renee Beland (2008) “On the mental representation of Arabic roots,” Linguistic Inquiry 39.2, 221-259.

Prunet, Jean-Francois (2006) “External evidence and the Semitic root,” Morphology 16.1, 41-67.

Paradis, Carole & Jean-Francois Prunet (2000) “Nasal vowels as two segments: evidence from borrowings,” Language 76.2, 324-357.

Prunet, Jean-Francois, Renee Beland & Ali Idrissi (2000) “The mental representation of Semitic words,” Linguistic Inquiry 31.4, 609-648.

Paradis, Carole & Jean-Francois Prunet (eds., 1991) The special status of coronals: internal and external evidence, in the series Phonetics and phonology, volume 2, Academic Press, San Diego, pp. xvii + 231. Foreword by Michael Kenstowicz.