2023 - 2027 – Project Coordinator for the "Boolean connectives: probing the interplay between Language & Logic (BooLL)" project.
PI, ANR-DFG grant, Franco-German Program
Partnership between:
ZAS Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft
IPN Leibniz-Institut für die Pädagogik der Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik
UMR 6310 Laboratoire de Linguistique de Nantes (LLING)
2021 - 2026 – Collaborator, European Research Council (ERC) Synergy Grant "Realizing Leibniz’s Dream: Child Languages as a Mirror of the Mind.".
First open, global research collaboration to conduct language acquisition studies (with the LLING being the only french team).
Principal investigators: Artemis Alexiadou (Humboldt University), Maria Teresa Guasti (University of Milan-Bicocca), Uli Sauerland (Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, ZAS)
2018 - 2019 – Leader CNRS Prematuration Program: CHILL (Children’s Development of Logical Language and Mathematical Concepts) Serious Games.
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).
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.
2014 - 2019 – Co-PI Van Gogh Program between the Netherlands and France
A Crosslinguistic Perspective on Children's Acquisition of Grammar-Meaning Interfaces
Bilateral collaboration between the University of Groningen (coordinator: Angeliek van Hout (Center for Language and Cognition Groningen)) & the University of Nantes (coordinator: Hamida Demirdache (LLING))
2013 - 2015 – Nantes Team Coordinator, GraMaLL (Grasping Meaning Across Languages and Learners)
European research net funded by NWO (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research).
Principal investigator: Angeliek van Hout (Groningen University)
GraMaLL bringing together researchers from 9 institutions across 7 countries:
Nantes University (LLING)
Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
Cambridge University
Greenwich University
Groningen University
University of Milano-Bicocca
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona)
Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (Berlin)
2013 - 2015 – Project Bearer
Senior Regional Chair for the LLING on the project "Understanding Questions." awarded to Lisa Cheng (Leiden University) by the Pays de la Loire Regional Council
2012 - 2015 – Project Bearer and Coordinator
LLING project "Language and Cognition Interfaces." funded by the Ministry of National Education, Higher Education & Research.
Evaluation by the AERES (Evaluation Agency for Research & Higher Education): A+
2010 - 2013 – Consultant for the project "Eventos e subeventos em Caboverdiano."
Centro de linguistica da Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Principal Investigator: Fernanda Pratas (PTDC/CLE-LIN/103334/2008)
2008 - 2012 – Project Bearer and Coordinator
LLING project "Internal and External Interfaces of Linguistics." funded by the Ministry of National Education, Higher Education & Research.
2004 - 2008 – Project Bearer and Coordinator
LLING project "Typology, Cognition, Discourse." funded by the Ministry of National Education, Higher Education & Research.
2006 - 2015 – Nantes Team Coordinator, with the Basque Research Group in Theoretical Linguistics (UPV-EHU).
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 & typological analysis of the functional cartography
2012 - 2015
"On the syntax semantics interface. Licensing conditions on derivations & interpretations. (InterSynSem).". FFI2011-29218
2008 - 2011
"Argument structure & the architecture of the grammar.". FFI2008-04786/Filo
2007 - 2012
"Ayudas para apoyar las actividades de grupos de investigacion del sistema, universitario vasco.". GIC07/144-IT-210-07
2006 - 2010 – CORPOFROAS project "Corpus Oral en langues Afroasiatiques: Analyse Prosodique et Morphosyntaxique.".
National Research Agency (ANR) grant awarded to the Laboratoire de Linguistique de Nantes (LLING)
Principal investigator: Amina Mettouchi (LLING)
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
2005 - 2006 – Franco-Dutch cooperation with Lisa Cheng (Leiden University Center for Linguistics)
Funded by the Royal Academy of Sciences of the Netherlands in the context of the DESCARTES-HUYGENS Prize 2003
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."
coordinated by Clive Perdue & Bridget Copley (UMR 7023)
Collaborator Program 1.3 "Distributive dependencies: nominal and verbal plurality."
coordinated by Brenda Laca & Patricia Cabredo Hofherr (UMR 7023)
2002 - 2005
Collaborator Program P4 "Sentence architecture: functional structure hierarchy and interpretation (VP level)."
coordinated by Brenda Laca & Hans Obenauer (UMR 7023)
2002 - 2009 – Collaborator Social Sciences & 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 (Paris 3), Liliane Tamowski-De Ryck (University of Antwerp)