2003 – Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches, Département Sciences du Langage, Nantes Université, Nantes.

Thesis title: A l'interface Syntaxe-Sémantique: Questions de référence nominale et de référence temporelle. (At the Syntax Semantics Interface. Issues in nominal and temporal reference)

Jury: Jean-Pierre Angoujard (Université de Nantes), Brenda Laca (Université de Paris 8), David Pesetsky (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)), Alain Rouveret (Université de Paris 7), Tim Stowell (University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA).

1991 - 1997 – P.h.D in Linguistics, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA 02139.

Thesis title: Resumptive Chains in Restrictive Relatives, Appositives and Dislocation Structure. ⟨hal-01055538⟩ 

Ph.D. Committe: Noam Chomsky (MIT, Chair), Ken Hale (MIT), Howard Lasnik (University of Connecticut), David Pesetsky (MIT), Esther Torrego (University of Boston).

1985 - 1986 – D.E.A de Linguistique, École des Hautes Eudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris 75005.

1984 - 1985 – Maîtrise des Sciences du Langage, Institut de Linguistique et de Phonétique Générales et Appliquées, Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3, Paris 75005.

1983 - 1984 – Licence des Sciences du Langage, Institut de Linguistique et de Phonétique Générales et Appliquées, Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3, Paris 75005.

1980 - 1983 – Licence de Lettres Modernes, Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3, Paris 75005.

1980 - 1983 – Licence de Langues Vivantes et Étrangères, Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3, Paris 75005.

Since 2008 – "Professeure des Universités", Departement of Linguistics, Nantes University, Nantes.

2022 – Director of the "Laboratoire de Linguistique de Nantes" (LLING, UMR 8310), Nantes University, Nantes.

2015 - 2021 – Appointed "Directrice Scientifique Adjointe", CNRS (French National Research Institute), InSHS (Department of Humanities and Social Sciences). In charge of Section 34 "Sciences of Language", National Committee of the CNRS (CoNRS) and Maisons des Sciences de l'Homme et du réseau des Instituts d’Études Avancées (MSH-IEA).

2004 - 2015 – Director of the "Laboratoire de Linguistique de Nantes" (LLING, EA 3827), Nantes University, Nantes.

2002 - 2004 – Director of the Departement of Linguistics, Nantes University, Nantes.

2001 - 2002 – Associate Chair,  Departement of Linguistics, Nantes University, Nantes.

1998 - 2008 – "Maître de Conférences", Departement of Linguistics, Nantes University, Nantes.

1995 - 2001 – Co-Investigator (Henry Davis, PI), SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council) Grants, University of British Columbia, Vancouver:

•  1996 - 1998 - "Diversity and the limits of linguisic variation: Interface issues in Salish".

• 1998 - 2001 - "Lexical Interfaces with Syntax anhd Phonology in Northwest Coast Languages".

1993 - 1998 – Lecturer in Linguistics, Department of Linguistics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

1992 - 1993 – SSHRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of California, Irvine.

1991 - 1992 – SSHRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Massachussetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge.

2011 – Nomination for the "Chevalier de l'ordre des Palmes Académiques".

2003 – Descartes-Huygens Laureate.

Prize awarded by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Science, in the fields of Material Sciences, Life Sciences, Human and Social Sciences.

Since 2004 – Research and Doctoral Supervision Award (Prime d'Encadrement Doctoral et de Recherche) awarded by the Ministry of National Education, Higher Education and Research. Awarded.

2008 - 2016 – Scientific Excellence Award (Prime d'Excellence Scientifique) awarded by the Ministry of National Education, Higher Education and Research.

2012 - 2013 – Research Leave Award (Congé pour Recherche (CRCT) and Accueil en délégation CNRS), Basque Research Group in Theoretical Linguistics, University of the Basque Country, Vitoria Gasteiz and IKER CNRS research lab (UMR 5478), Bayonne.

2004 - 2008 – Research and Doctoral Supervision Award (Prime d'Encadrement Doctoral et de Recherche) awarded by the Ministry of National Education, Higher Education and Research.

2006, January - March – Research Leave Award (Congré pour recherche (CRCT)), Leiden University Center for Linguistics, Leiden.

2005, November - 2006, February – Descartes-Huygens Laureate: €23,000 research award from the Riyal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Science in the fields of Material Sciences, Life Sciences, Human and Social Sciences.

19991 - 1993 – Post-Doctoral Fellow MIT (1991 - 1992), University of California, Irvine (1992 - 1993), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Grand (#756-91-0439): 

Title: "The Syntax of Relatives and Dislocation in Morphologically Ergative Languages".

1988 - 1990 – Doctoral Fellow, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Grant.

2023 - 2027 –  "Boolean connectives: probing the interplay between Language & Logic. - BooLL".

PI, ANR-DFG grant, Franco-German Program  €303 940,90,

Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft: € 277 430,00,

Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education (IPN): € 200 241,00,

Total: € 781 611,90.

2021 - 2026  – Collaborator, European Research Council (ERC) Synergy Grant Realizing Leibniz’s Dream: Child Languages as a Mirror of the Mind PIs: Artemis Alexiadou (Humboldt University), Maria Teresa Guasti (University of Milan-Bicocca), Uli Sauerland (Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, ZAS).

First open, global research collaboration to conduct language acquisition studies (The LLING is the only french team).

2018 - 2019  – Leader CNRS Prematuration Program: CHILL (Children’s Development of Logical Language and Mathematical Concepts) Serious Games.

Partners: Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS) & Humboldt University, Center for language and Cognition at the University of Groningen, School of Experimental Psychology at theUniversity of Bristol.

This CNRS program is set up to support the first stages of development of emerging projects with high potential for innovation. The funding is for a prototype for a purpose-built computer game testing child/adult propositional logic skills, the Cool Boole School game, developed at the LLING lab with a French customized digital training company (My-Serious Game).

€ 144 996

2014 - 2019 – Leader of Work Program 3 (WP3): Heritage languages and language users in the EU.

AThEME (Advancing the European Multilingual Experience) Large Scale Integrated Research Project (FP7-SSH).

WP3 experimentally investigates knowledge and acquisition of heritage languages, as opposed to native as well as second language knowledge and acquisition.

€398,080 LLING, Nantes.

2014 - 2015  – Co-PI Van Gogh Program between the Netherlands and France.

Title : A Crosslinguistic Perspective on Children’s Acquisition of Grammar-Meaning Interfaces.

Bilateral collaboration between the universities of Groningen (Angeliek van Hout, Center for Language and Cognition Groningen) and Nantes (Hamida Demirdache, LLING).

€5,000 Groningen, €4.200 LLING, Nantes.

2013 - 2015  – Nantes Team Coordinator, GraMaLL (Grasping Meaning Across Languages and Learners).

European research net funded by the NWO (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, (PI: Angeliek van Hout, Groningen), bringing together researchers from 9 institutions across 7 countries: Nantes (LLING), U. Autonoma de Barcelona, Cambridge, Greenwich U., Groningen, Milano-Bicocca, U. Nova de Lisboa, U. Pompeu Fabra, Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (Berlin). 

2013 - 2015  – Project bearer.

Senior Regional Chair (8 months) for the LLING on the project "Understanding Questions" awarded to Lisa Cheng (Leiden) by the Pays de La Loire Regional Council (€75,000). 

2012 - 2015  – Project bearer and coordinator.

LLING project "Langage and Cognition Interfaces"

Funding from the Ministry of National Education, Higher Education and Research.

€25,430 per year.

2006 - 2015  – With the Basque Research Group in Theoretical Linguistics (UPV-EHU):

Nantes coordinator, European Research Nets in Linguistics:

• 2009 - 2010 – HM-2009-1-1 Universal Grammar and Linguistic Variation.

• 2008 - 2009 – HM-2008-1-10 Building and interpreting syntactic structures.

• 2007 - 2008 – HM-2007 Licensing conditions at the linguistic interfaces.

• 2006 - 2007 – HM-2006-1-8 Comparative and typological analysis of the functional cartography.

Collaborators:

2012 - 2015 – INTERSYNSEM: Licensing conditions on derivations and interpretation. 

2008 - 2011 – Argument structure and the architecture of the grammar.

2007 - 2012 – Ayudas para apoyar las actividades de grupos de investigación del sistema universitario vasco.

2010 - 2013  – Consultant for the project "Eventos e subeventos em Caboverdiano", Centro de linguística da Universidade Nova de Lisboa. [PTDC/CLE-LIN/103334/2008].

2008 - 2012  – Project bearer and coordinator.

LLING project "Internal and External Linguistic Interfaces"

Funding from the Ministry of National Education, Higher Education and Research.

€24,419 per year.

2004 - 2008 – Project bearer and coordinator

LLING project "Typology, Cognition, Discourse"

Funding from the Ministry of National Education, Higher Education and Research.

€21,605 per year.

2006 - 2007 – Project bearer.

Post-doctoral fellowship "Dépendances syntaxiques à distance : mouvement versus résomption." awarded to Milan Rezac (Toronto) by the Ministry of Higher Education and Research.

2002 - 2009  – With the CNRS Research Federation Typologie et Universaux Linguistiques (TUL) (FR 2559):

• 2006 - 2009 – Collaborator TEMPTYPAC Program 1.2 "Temporality: typology and acquisition"

Coordinators: Clive Perdue and Bridget Copley (UMR 7023).

   –  Collaborator Program 1.3 "Distributive dependencies: nominal and verbal plurality"

Coordinators: Brenda Laca and Patricia Cabredo Hofherr (UMR 7023).

• 2002 - 2005 – Collaborator, Program 4 "Sentence architecture: functional structure hierarchy and interpretation (VP level)"

Coordinators: Brenda Laca and Hans Obenauer (UMR 7023).

2002 - 2005  – Collaborator, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada grant: Exploring the consequences of cross-linguistic variation in Semantics: Tense and Aspect in Salish and Wakashan.

Principal Investigator: Lisa Matthewson (University of British Columbia).

2000 - 2003  – Collaborator, European (France-Belgium) Tournesol Project on Tense and Aspect.

Principal Investigators: Jacqueline Guéron (U. Paris 3), Liliane Tamowski-De Ryck (U. of Antwerp).

1998 - 2001  – Co-investigator, SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council) grant (#410-98-1597).

"Diversity and the limits of linguistic variation: interface issues in Salish. "

 Principal Investigator: Henry Davis (University of British Columbia).

1995 - 1998  – Co-investigator, SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council) grant (#410-92-1629).

"Lexical Interfaces with Syntax and Phonology in Northwest Coast Languages."

 Principal Investigator: Henry Davis (University of British Columbia).

In charge of the syntax/semantics components of the project (with Henry Davis). Responsibilities included supervision of graduate student research, student training, organizing forums for dissemination of results and primary field work.

2022 – Member of the selection committee for the position of "Professeur des Université" (PU) in Linguistique générale et française, syntaxe, put forward by Le Mans University.

2020 – Appointed by the Rectorate of the University of Geneva to participate, in an expert capacity, in the commission of appointment for a position as ordinary or associate professor in French linguistics, Faculté des Lettres, UNIGE (University of Geneva), Geneva.

2020 – Member of the selection committee for the "Maître de Conférences" (MCF) position UO700MCF1076, section 7, UMR 7023 Structures Formelles du Langage, Faculty of Language Sciences, Paris 8 University, "Linguistique française: approche expérimentale et variationniste".

2018 – President of the selection committee for the position of PR n°1510, section 7, LLING UMR 6310/Department of Linguistics, Nantes University, "Syntaxe".

2016 – Selection committee for the position of PR n°1285, section 12, LLING UMR 6310/Department of Foreign languages and cultures, Nantes University, "Linguistique Allemande".

2014 –  President of the selection committee for the position of "Maître de Conférences" (MCF) n°1711, section 11, LLING UMR 6310/Department of Foreign languages and cultures, Nantes University, "Linguistique Anglaise".

2013 – Selection committee for the position of PR, section 7, Département d'Etudes Cognitives, ENS-ULM, "Linguistique Formelle ou Expérimentale".

2013 – President of the selection committee for the position of "Maître de Conférences" (MCF) n°1601, section 15, LLING EA 3827/Department of Foreign languages and cultures, Nantes University, "Langue Chinoise".

2012 – President of the selection committee for the position of "Maître de Conférences" (MCF) n°0967, section 7, LLING UMR 6310/Department of Linguistics, Nantes University, "Phonétique et Linguistique Générales".

Professor Angeliek van Hout, Centre for Language and Cognition at the University of Groningen.

Research stay: LLING, Nantes, March, 10 – April 24. 2020.

Project: "Verbal inferences and non-verbal reasoning."

Funded under the "Directeurs d'Etudes Associés" (DEA) program of the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (FMSH). [Project postponed due to COVID].

Professor Denis Delfitto, University of Verona.

Research stay: LLING, Nantes, 18 Mars – 26 Avril 2019.

Project: "Negation Expletive."; "Implicit Learning, Bilingualism, and Dyslexia."

Professor Elizabeth Hastings Pearce, School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington.

Sabbatical research leave: LLING, Nantes, September, 1 – November 30, 2015.

Expert in the theoretical syntax of Maori, and more generally of Oceanic languages.

Research program: "On the syntactic composition of the left edge of the clause in Maori, a VSO language.".