I am an Associate Professor (Maître de Conférences) in the Department of Chinese studies at the University of Picardie Jules-Verne.

Research interests

I am interested in semantics, syntax and their interface. My work focuses on temporal interpretation of predicates with(out) aspect in Mandarin Chinese, and contributes to the debate of whether a language with no grammatical tense could have syntactic and semantic tense. I studied cross-linguistic variations in tense system, and in particular, future / non-future tense and modality. My research also deals with Mandarin stative / eventive contrast in the temporal readings, the non-culminating readings of causative verbs, habituality / genericity in bare sentences and the temporal reference of independent vs. embedded clauses.

Educational background

Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of Nantes / Leiden University, 2014

Thesis Title: Temporal Construals of Bare Predicates in Mandarin Chinese

Directrice: Hamida Demirdache (Nantes U.); Co-supervisor: Orin Percus (Nantes U.);
Co-supervisors: Lisa L.-S. Cheng & Rint Sybesma (Leiden U.)