Research interests and activities:
My main research interests include theoretical syntax, lexical semantics, first language acquisition as well as French and Romance languages in general. My research activities are mainly concerned with different linguistic phenomena in French. I am particularly interested in sentential complementation and the study of tense, aspect and mood. I am presently conducting research on the comprehension of factive and non-factive complements by French- and English-speaking children.
DISSERTATIONS
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2006: La complémentation de type phrastique des adjectifs en français (Sentential Complementation of Adjectives in French), Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM), Quebec, Canad
Master’s thesis, 1999: L’utilisation des temps de verbe dans les narrations écrites et orales d’enfants francophones de la première à la cinquième année scolaire (The Use of Verbal Tenses in French-Speaking Children’s Oral and Written Narratives), Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM), Quebec, Canada
PUBLICATIONS
To appear
"Sentential complementation of adjectives in French". In Ora Matushansky (ed), The Formal Analysis of Adjectives, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
2003
"La complémentation phrastique des adjectifs en français". In Sophie Burelle and Stanca Somesfalean (eds), Proceedings of the 2003 Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association, 133–144.
2000
"The use of tenses in French-speaking children’s narratives". In Eve V. Clark (ed), The Proceedings of the Thirtieth Stanford Child Language Research Forum (April 9–11, 1999), Stanford, CA: Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI), 105–112.
REFEREED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2007
"Knowing, Thinking, Seeing and Being Happy: The Acquisition of Factive and Nonfactive Predicates", Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition 2007 (GALA 2007) (September 6th to September 8th, 2007), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, September 6th, 2007.
2006
"Understanding of factivity under negation: an asymmetry between two types of factive predicates", Boston University Conference on Language Development 31 (November 3rd to November 5th, 2006), Boston University, November 4th, 2006.
2005
"Sentential Complements of Adjectives in French", Journée d’études sur l’analyse formelle d’adjectifs/Workshop on the Formal Analysis of Adjectives (September 28th, 2005), organized by the Joint Research Unit 7023 of the National Council for Scientific Research (CNRS) and the Université Paris 8, Université de Paris 6 (Pierre and Marie Curie), September 28th, 2005.
2004
"Les propriétés syntaxiques et sémantiques des adjectifs de qualités morales", 72nd Annual Meeting of the Association francophone pour le savoir (ACFAS) (May 10th to May 14th, 2004), Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM), May 10th, 2004.
2003
"Une analyse sémantique de la complémentation des adjectifs en français", Canadian Linguistic Association Annual Conference (June 1st to June 4th, 2003), Dalhousie University, Halifax (Nova Scotia), June 3rd, 2003.
1999
"L’utilisation des temps de verbe dans les narrations écrites et orales d’enfants francophones de la première à la cinquième année scolaire", Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics (June 4th to June 6th, 1999), Université de Sherbrooke (Quebec), June 5th, 1999.
1999
"Tense and aspect in French-speaking children’s written and oral narratives", Thirtieth Stanford Child Language Research Forum (April 9th to April 11th, 1999), Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI), Stanford University, April 10th, 1999.
OTHER CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2007
"Knowing, seeing, being happy and thinking: the development of different types of states", Smith College, Northampton, Mass., April 2, 2007.
2006
"Mastery of properties associated with the factive/non-factive distinction", UUSLAW—University of Connecticut, University of Massachusetts, Smith College Language Acquisition Workshop, Department of Linguistics, University of Connecticut, April 29th, 2006.
2006
"English- and French-speaking children’s understanding of factive and non-factive complements", Department of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, February 13th, 2006.
1998
"L’utilisation des temps de verbe dans les narrations écrites et orales d’enfants francophones de la première à la cinquième année scolaire", Department of Linguistics and Didactics of Languages, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM,) November 13th, 1998.