Hafida Iguir, "Subordination in Moroccan Arabic.".
Supervisors: Hamida Demirdache (Nantes University, LLING), Orin Percus (Nantes University, LLING), Hongyuan Sun (University of Picardie)
Ouras Aljani, "Syntaxe expérimentale des questions en arabe orientale.".
Supervisors: Hamida Demirdache (Nantes University, LLING), Orin Percus (Nantes University, LLING), Lisa Cheng (Leiden University).
Double Ph.D
Angèle Bernard, "Homogeneity and Truth Value Judgements.".
Supervisors: Orin Percus (Nantes University, LLING, Thesis Director), Hamida Demirdache (Nantes University, LLING, Thesis Direction), Angeliek van Hout (University of Groningen), Jennifer Spenader (Institue for Artificial Intelligence).
Double Ph.D: Nantes University, Laboratoire de Linguistique de Nantes- LLING (Hamida Demirdache, Co-director ; Orin Percus, Co-director) & University of Groningen (Angeliek Van Hout, Director ; Jennifer Spenader)
Antoine Cochard, "Development of Children's Logical Language: Case study in French L1.". Defended December 4, 2025.
Double Ph.D: Nantes University, Laboratoire de Linguistique de Nantes- LLING (Hamida Demirdache, Director) & University of Groningen (Angeliek Van Hout, Director)
Jury: Hamida Demirdache (Nantes, LLING, Thesis Director), Maria Teresa Guasti (University of Milano-Bicocca), Jeffrey Lidz (University of Maryland, Reviewer) Mora Maldonado (Pompeu Fabra University), Anne Reboul (University of Lyon, Reviewer), Jacopo Romoli (Heinrich-Heine University), Uli Sauerland (University of Potsdam) Angeliek Van Hout (University of Groningen, Thesis Director), Rineke Verbrugge (University of Groningen).
Mention cum laude
Elizabeth Heredia Murillo, "Acquisition des opérateurs logiques en français et en espagnol.". Defended October 19, 2023.
Double Ph.D: Nantes University, Laboratoire de Linguistique de Nantes- LLING (Hamida Demirdache, Director) & University of Groningen (Angeliek Van Hout, Director, Jacob Hoeksema, Co-Supervisor).
Jury: Hamida Demirdache (Nantes University, LLING, Thesis Director), Jacob Hoeksema (University of Groningen), Patricia Cabredo-Hoffherr (Université Paris 8, Reviewer), Brenda Laca (Paris 8, SFL, Reviewer), Emar Maier (University of Groningen), Mora Maldonado (Pompeu Fabra Univerisity), Petra Schulz (Goethe University Frankfurt), Angeliek Van Hout (University of Groningen, Thesis Director), Cornelius Jan-Wouter Zwart (University of Groningen)
Kryzzya Gomez, "Pronoms (implicites) en espagnol, langue d'héritage, approche expérimentale.". Defended December 12, 2023.
Jury: Pilar Barbosa (University of Minho), José Camacho (University of Illinoi), Hamida Demirdache (Nantes University, Thesis Director), Maia Duguine (IKER UMR 5478, UPPA, Co-Supervisor), Nicolas Guilliot (Université Bordeaux Montaigne, Reviewer), Brenda Laca (Universidad de la República, Reviewer) Isabelle Roy (Nantes University, LLING)
Samantha Becerra Zita, "Negation, polarity and answers to negative polar questions in Romance: the case of Gallo.". Defended February 5, 2021.
Jury: Anne Dagnac (Université de Toulouse 2), Hamida Demirdache, (Nantes University, LLING, Thesis Director), María Teresa Espinal (Autonomous University of Barcelona), Nicolas Guilliot (University of Bordeaux Montaigne, Thesis Director), Bèrtran Ôbrée (Institut CHUBRI), Isabelle Roy (Nantes University, LLING), Mireille Tremblay (University of Montréal), Myriam Uribe-Etxbarria Goti (Universidad del Pais Vasco).
Publications:
Nicolas Guilliot, Samantha Becerra-Zita. Negative Concord and Sentential Negation in Gallo. Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2016 : selected papers from Going Romance 2016, John Benjamins, pp.53-71, 2019, ⟨10.1075/rllt.15.03gui⟩. ⟨hal-01667785⟩
Samantha Becerra-Zita, Hamida Demirdache. On negative indefinites in Gallo. Evidence for non-intrinsically negative (scalar) negation. Lingvisticae investigationes : International Journal of Linguistics and Language, 2018, 41 (1), pp.111-128. ⟨10.1075/li.00015.bec⟩. ⟨hal-04096287⟩
Ana Bosnic, "Experimental investigations into the semantics of distributive marking - Data from Serbian, Korean and Dutch.". Defended June 25, 2021.
Double Ph.D: Nantes University, Laboratoire de Linguistique de Nantes- LLING (Hamida Demirdache, Director) & University of Groningen Alice - Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Engineering, Cognitive Modelling ( Niels Taatgent Director, Jennifer Spenader, Co-Supervisor).
Jury: Hamida Demirdache (Nantes University, LLING, Thesis Director), Niels Taatgent (University of Groningen, Thesis Director), Jennifer Spenader (University of Groningen, Co-Supervisor), Petra Hendriks (University of Groningen), Patricia Cabredo-Hoffherr (SFL, CNRS), Irina Sekerina (Cuny University), Seth Cable (University of Massachusetts at Amherst/UMASS), Marta Donazzan (Nantes University, LLING), Rineke Verbrugge (University of Groningen).
Publications:
Ana Bosnić, Hamida Demirdache, Jennifer Spenader. Exhaustivity and homogeneity effects with distributive‐share markers: Experimental evidence from Serbian po. Syntax, 2021, 25 (1), pp.1-38. ⟨10.1111/synt.12223⟩. ⟨hal-05546182⟩
Ana Bosnić, Jennifer Spenader, Hamida Demirdache. Dancing monkeys in Serbian and Korean – exhaustivity requirements on distributive share markers. Glossa a journal of general linguistics, 2020, 5 (1), pp.1-28. ⟨10.5334/gjgl.858⟩. ⟨hal-04047155⟩
Ashraf Allawama, "Interprétations Universelles et Existentielles de 'Kull' en Arabe Jordanien: Théories et Expérimentation.". Defended June 26, 2020.
Jury: Elabbas Benmamoun (Duke University), Hamida Demirdache (Nantes University, LLING, Thesis Director), Anamaria Falaus (Nantes University, LLING; CNRS), Nicolas Guilliot (University of Bordeaux Montaigne), Peter Hallman (Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence).
Jinhong Liu, "Lectures (non)-culminatives des accomplissements causatifs en mandarin : une approche expérimentale.". Defended October 26, 2018.
Jury:Hamida Demirdache (Nantes University, LLING, Thesis Director), Orin Percus (Nantes University, LLING, Co-supervisor), Angeliek Van Hout (University of Groningen), Nina KKazanina (Bristol University), Isabelle Roy (Paris 8), Lucia Tovena (Paris 7).
Publications:
Angeliek van Hout, María J Arche, Hamida Demirdache, Isabel García del Real, Ainara García Sanz, et al.. Agent Control and the Acquisition of Event Culmination in Basque, Dutch, English, Spanish and Mandarin. The 41st annual Boston University conference on language development, Nov 2016, Boston (Massachusetts), United States. pp.323-332. ⟨hal-04125408⟩
Jiyoung Choi, "(Inchoative) States in Korean. Evidence from child language.". Defended September 14, 2015.
Jury: Hamida Demirdache (Nantes University, LLING, Thesis Director), Orin Percus (Nantes University, LLING, Co-Director), Nina Kazanina (Bristol ), Isabelle Roy (Paris 8, SFL), Lucia Tovena (Paris 7, LLF), Angeliek van Hout (University of Groningen), Brenda Laca (Paris 8, SFL).
Publications:
Jiyoung Choi. Children's acquisition of inchoative constructions in Korean. Journal of Child Language Acquisition and Development, 2019, 7 (2), pp.51-72. ⟨hal-03966167⟩
Jiyoung Choi, Hamida Demirdache. Intervention Effects in Korean: Experimental L1 Evidence. Proceedings of the 41st Boston University Conference on Language Development, 1, pp.140-153, 2017, 978-1-57473-076-0. ⟨hal-03966239⟩
Natasa Knezevic, "Numerals and Distributivity in Serbian : at the syntax-semantics-acquisition interface.". Defended in 2015.
Jury: Hamida Demirdache (Nantes University, LLING, Thesis Director), Orin Percus (Nantes University, LLING, Co-supervisor), Boban Arsenijevic (Nis & Postdam, Co-supervisor), Bart Hollebrandse (Groningen), Irina Sekerina (College of Staten Island, CUNY), Brenda Laca (Paris 8), Patricia Cabredo Hofherr (Paris 8).
Publications:
Knezevic, Natasa & Demirdache, Hamida. (2018). Universal Quantification and Distributive Marking in Serbian. Linguistic and Cognitive Aspects of Quantification, Dordrecht: Springer. <0.1007/978-3-319-91566-1_6>
Hamida Demirdache, Nataša Knežević. On the Acquisition of Distributive Numerals in Serbian. Language Acquisition at the Interfaces, 2017, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp.83-107, 2017, 9781527503366. ⟨hal-05531245⟩
Hongyuan Sun, "Temporal construals of bare predicates in Mandarin Chinese.". Defended December 6, 2014.
Double Ph.D: Nantes University, LLING (Hamida Demirdache, Director, Orin Percus, Co-supervisor) & University of Leiden, Department of Linguistics (Lisa Cheng and Rint Sysbema, Directors).
Jury: Lisa Cheng (Univerisity of Leiden, Thesis Director), Hamida Demirdache (Nantes University, LLING, Thesis Director), Brenda Laca (Paris 8), Lisa Matthewson (University of British Columbia), Orin Percus (Nantes University, LLING, Co-supervisor), Rint Sysbema (University of Leiden, Thesis Director), Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai (National Tsing Hua University), Henk Verkuyl (Utrecht)
Publications:
Hongyuan Sun. Evidence against a scope analysis of temporally free readings of relative clauses in Mandarin. Cahiers Chronos, 27, Rodopi, pp.59-77, 2015, 978-90-04-29202-4. ⟨hal-03977932⟩
Hongyuan Sun. Temporal Construals of Bare Predicates in Mandarin Chinese. LOT Publications, 373, 2014, 978-94-6093-155-0. ⟨hal-04299764⟩
Maia Duguine, "Null arguments and linguistic variation: a minimalist approach to pro-drop.". Defended July 31, 2013.
Double Ph.D: Nantes University (Hamida Demirdache, Thesis Director), University of the Basque Country - Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (Ricardo Etxepare, Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria).
Jury: Cedric Boeckx (Universuty of Barcelona), Hamida Demirdache (Nantes University, LLING, Thesis Director), Ricardo Etxepare(Universidad del Pais Vasco; IKER, Thesis Director), Olga Fernandez Soriano (Autonomous University of Madrid), Jairo Nunes (Sao Paulo), Bernard Oyharcabal (CNRS, IKER), Alain Rouveret (Paris 7), Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria ((Universidad del Pais Vasco), Thesis Director).
Publications:
Maia Duguine. Reversing the Approach to Null Subjects: A Perspective from Language Acquisition. Frontiers in Psychology, 2017, 8. ⟨hal-02017969⟩
Argument ellipsis: a unitary approach to pro-drop. The Linguistic Review 31(3-4): 515-550, 2014. <10.1515/tlr-2014-0010>
Oana Lungu, "Tense in Embedded Contexts: the View from (French) Child Language.". Defended 2012.
Jury: Bridget Copley (CNRS), Hamida Demirdache (Nantes University, LLING, Thesis Director), Valentine Hacquard (Maryland), Bart Hollebrandse (University of Groningen), Brenda Laca (Paris 8), Orin Percus (Nantes University, LLING, Co-Supervisor), Laurice Tuller (Tours).
Publications:
Oana Lungu, Anamaria Falaus, Francesca Panzeri. Disjunction in negative contexts: a cross-linguistic experimental study. Journal of Semantics, 2021, 38 (2), pp.221-247. ⟨10.1093/jos/ffab002⟩. ⟨hal-03087667v2⟩
Oana Lungu. Temporal interpretations of definite DPs: The view from European Portuguese child language. Language Acquisition, 2018, 25 (4), pp.418-437. ⟨10.1080/10489223.2017.1391267⟩. ⟨hal-03695481⟩
Dafina Ratiu, "De la syntaxe à la sémantique des questions : étude des questions multiples en roumain.". Defended 2011.
Jury: Lisa Cheng (University of Leiden), Hamida Demirdache (Nantes University, LLING, Thesis Director), Nicolas Guilliot (Nantes), Mark de Vries (University of Groningen), Orin Percus (Nantes University, Commission Européenne (PCDRT-7), Co-Supervisor), Alain Rouveret (Paris 7), Vidal Valmala (Universidad del Pais Vasco)
Publications:
Dafina Ratiu. A Multidominance Account for Conjoined Questions in Romania. Romance Linguistics, 2010: Selected papers from the 40th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages. 257–270. John Benjamins. <https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.318 >
Dafina Ratiu. Matching vs. Coordinated Questions, ConSOLE XVII, January 16-18, 2009, Nova- Gorica, Slovenia
Anamaria Falaus, "Items de polarité et indéfinis dépendants en roumain.". Defended 2009.
Jury: Gennaro Chierchia (Harvard University), Hamida Demirdache (Nantes University, LLING, Thesis Director), Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin (CNRS) Brenda Laca (Paris 8), Orin Percus (Nantes University, LLING, Co-Supervisor), Lucia Tovena (Paris 7).
Bronze Medal of CNRS 2019
Laureate project Etoiles montantes (Pays de la Loire region) for the LLANG (Logiquement parlant: Le langage comme système inférentiel) project
Publications:
Anamaria Falaus. (Partially) Free choice of alternatives. Linguistics and Philosophy, 2014, 37 (2), pp.121-173. ⟨10.1007/s10988-014-9146-8⟩. ⟨hal-01133698⟩
Anamaria Falaus. Introduction : Alternatives in semantics and pragmatics. Alternatives in Semantics, Palgrave Macmillan, pp.1-35, 2013, Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition, 9780230314344. ⟨hal-01158558⟩
Nouman Malkawi, "Sur la syntaxe de quelques expressions anaphoriques : épithètes et pronoms résomptifs.". Defended 2009.
Jury: Elabas Benmamoun (Urbana-Champaign University), Hamida Demirdache (Nantes University, LLING, Thesis Director), Orin Percus (Nantes University, LLING), Milan Rezac (CNRS, Paris 7), Alain Rouveret (Paris 7).
Publications:
Nicolas Guilliot, Nouman Malkawi. Weak versus Strong Resumption: covarying differently. A. Rouveret. Resumptive Pronouns at the Interfaces, 5, John Benjamins, pp.395-423, 2011, Language Faculty And Beyond, 9789027208224. ⟨10.1075/lfab.5.11gui⟩. ⟨hal-01030784⟩
Nouman Malkawi. Weak Resumption And Ellipsis. AHUJ, Volume 2. pp.235-248. 2016. <https://doi.org/10.36621/0397-002-001-009>
Magda Oiry, "Acquisition des questions à longue distance par des enfants de langue maternelle française. Stratégies à dépendance directe versus indirecte et questions alternatives.". Defended in 2008.
Jury: Hamida Demirdache (Nantes University, LLING, Thesis Director), Cyrille Granget (LLING, Nantes ), Brenda Laca (Paris 8), Bernadette Plunkett (York University), Thomas Roeper (UMass, Amherst), Maria-Teresa Guasti (University of Milan Bicocca).
Publications:
Hamida Demirdache, Magda Oiry. On the felicity conditions for long-distance questions in L1 acquisition. 31st Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 31), Nov 2006, Boston University, Boston, United States. p.184-195. ⟨hal-01055504⟩
Magda Oiry. A case of true optionality: Wh-in-situ patterns like Long Movement in French. Linguistic Analysis. 2011.
Nicolas Guilliot, "La Reconstruction à l'interface entre Syntaxe et Sémantique.". Defended in 2006.
Jury: Ronnie Cann (University of Edinburgh), Hamida Demirdache (Nantes University, LLING, Thesis Director), Alain Kihm (CNRS, Paris 7), Orin Percus (Nantes, LLING), Alain Rouveret (Paris 7), Uli Sauerland (Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS), Berlin).
Publications:
Nicolas Guilliot. A top-down analysis for Reconstruction. Lingua, 2006, 116 (11), http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00243841. ⟨10.1016/j.lingua.2004.10.002⟩. ⟨hal-00437089⟩
Nicolas Guilliot, Nouman Malkawi. When Movement fails to Reconstruct. José M. Brucart; Anna Gavarró; Jaume Solà. Merging Features, Oxford University Press, pp.157-174, 2009, Oxford Scholarship Online, 9780199553266. ⟨10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199553266.003.0009⟩. ⟨hal-00437100⟩
Mélanie Jouitteau, "La syntaxe comparée du breton.". Defended in 2005.
Jury: Paul Boucher (Nantes), Hamida Demirdache (Nantes University, LLING, Thesis Director), Anders Holmberg (Newcastle upon Tyne University), Alain Kihm (CNRS, Paris 7), Javier Ormazabal (Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea), Alain Rouveret (Paris 7).
Publications:
Mélanie Jouitteau, Milan Rezac. Deriving Complementarity Effects. Lingua, 2006, 116 (11), pp.1915-1945. ⟨10.1016/j.lingua.2005.03.012⟩. ⟨hal-00605656⟩
Mélanie Jouitteau. Nominal Properties of vPs in Breton: A hypothesis for the typology of VSO languages. Andrew Carnie; Heidi Harley; Sheila Ann Dooley. Verb First: On the Syntax of Verb Initial Languages, 73, John Benjamins, pp.265-280, 2005, Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 9789027227973. ⟨10.1075/la.73.18jou⟩. ⟨halshs-00605730⟩
Carie Gillon, "The Semanticsof Das in Skwxwu7mesh and Upper River Halkomelem.". 2006.
Ph.D. Thesis Committee: Lisa Matthewson (Chair), Hamida Demirdache (Co-advisor, Nantes), Hotze Rullmann (Co-advisor), Martina Wiltschko (Co-advisor)
Aki Uechi, "Topicalized and Focused Phrases in Japanese.". 1998.
Ph.D. Thesis Committee: Michael Rochemont (Chair), Henry Davis (Co-advisor), Hamida Demirdache (Co-advisor)
Takeru Suzuki, "A Theory of Lexical Functors: Light Heads in the Lexicon and Syntax. ". 1997.
Ph.D. Thesis Committee: Michael Rochemont (Chair), Henry Davis (Co-advisor), Hamida Demirdache (Co-advisor)
Eleanor Blain, "The Syntax of WH-Questions in Plains Cree.". 1997.
Ph.D. Thesis Committee: Rosemary Déchaine (Chair), Henry Davis (Co-advisor), Hamida Demirdache (Co-advisor)
Lisa Matthewson, "Determiner Systems and Quantificational Strategies: Evidence from Salish.". 1996.
Ph.D. Thesis Committee: Rosemary Déchaine (Chair), Hamida Demirdache (Co-advisor), Dale Kinkade (Co-advisor), Michael Rochemont (Co-advisor)
Outstanding Dissertations in Language, Logic and Computation Award (1998) - FoLLI (European Association for Language, Logic and Information) Dissertation Prize Competition, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
First prize ex aequo with Friedman (1997), "Modeling Beliefs in Dynamic Systems", doctoral dissertation, Stanford University
Monica Sanchez, "Agrammatism: a Cross-Linguistic Study.". 1996.
Ph.D. Thesis Committee: Henry Davis (Chair), Rosemary Déchaine (Co-advisor), Hamida Demirdache (Co-advisor), John Gilbert (Co-advisor, Department of Speech Sciences, UBC)
Yan Feng Qu, "Object Fronting in Chinese.". 1995.
Ph.D. Thesis Committee: Henry Davis (Chair), Hamida Demirdache (Co-advisor), Michael Rochemont (Co-advisor), Leslie Saxon (Co-advisor, UVic).
Tomio Hirose, "The Directionality of Transitivity Alternations: a View from Cree.". 1998.
King Jiang, "Reciprocity: Intrinsic or Relational?". 1995.
Eleanor Blain, "Emphatic Pronouns in Plains Cree.". 1994.
Miles Leitch, "Relative Clauses in Babole.". 1994.
Olanike Nike, "Long-Distance Anaphors in Yoruba.". 1994.
Kimary Shahin, "Null Objects in Palestinian Arabic.". 1994.
Aki Uechi, "Focus and Quantification: A Case Study of Japanese Subjects.". 1994.
Monica Sanchez, "Determiners in Agrammatism. Co-chaired with Henry Davis.". 1994.
Aki Uechi, "Phonological Phrasing in Japanese. Ph.D. Phonology generals.". 1995.
Marie Hugues Grégoire, "Issues in Mauritian Creole morphosyntyax".
Ouras Aljani, "Questions Multiples Coordonnées en Arabe Syrien.". 2021.
Antoine Cochard, "On non-adult interpretations of disjunction in positive vs negative contexts in child L1 French.". 2019.
Kryzzia Gomez Agudelo, "Sujet nuls vs. lexical dans les constructions non-finies en espagnol colombien.". 2017.
Supervisors: Hamida Demirdache (Nantes, LLING, Director), Maia Duguine (Valencia Polytechnic University, UPV, Co-supervisor)
Elizabeth Heredia Murio, "A propos de ni (siquiera) en espagnol.". 2016.
Fatima Albochi, "A propos des numéraux et du pluriel en arabe syrien.". 2016.
Ashraf Allawama, "Les mots en N en Arabe Jordanien: une approche expérimentale.". 2015.
Aurore Gonzalez, "Negative coordination: ni vs. ni...ni in French.". 2014.
Laureate of a Ph.D Fellowship at Harvard University, 2014 - 2020
Hanh Nguyen, "L'interprétation des mots wh en vietnamien.". 2013.
Sophie Moracchini, "On the Syntax-Semantics Interface of Comparatives: Evidence from Vietnamese.". 2013.
Laureate of a Ph.D Fellowship at MIT, 2013 - 2018
Yuan Liu, " Acquisition of the scope interaction of suoyou 'every' and negation in Chinese.". 2013.
Jovana Gajic, "Mots en N, Polarité Négative et Libre Choix. Entre distribution complémentaire et terrain partagé.". 2012.
Laureate of a Ph.D Scholarship at the University of Göttingen Georg August, 2013 - 2018
Natasa Knezevic, "Les expressions numérales quantifiées en serbe: étude expérimentale d'acquisition en langue première.". 2010.
Jiyoung Choi, "Le passé en coréen: étude expérimentale d'acquisition en langue première.". 2009.
Hongyuan Sun, "Une analyse temporelle du chinois mandarin.". 2009. Co-chaired with Orin Percus.
Oana Lungu, "Lectures temporelles des propositions subordonnées: étude expérimentale d'acquisition du français, langue maternelle.". 2006.
Guillaume Thomas, "N'importe qu- et la modalité.". 2006. Co-chaired with Orin Percus.
Laureate of a Ph.D Fellowship at MIT, 2008 - 2012
Dafina Ratiu, "Les interrogatives en roumain: mouvement multiple et partiel.". 2005.
Youngjune Jang, "Pronoms et anaphores en coréen.". 2005.
Anamaria Falaus, "Les mots en N en roumain: concordance négative et double négation.". 2004.
Nouman Malkawi, "Pronoms présomptifs et épithètes en Jordanien.". 2004
Solwenn Le Ray, "Acquisition des quantificateurs universels.". 2004.
Magda Oiry, "Acquisition syntaxique: la compréhension des questions-wh.". 2003.
Preut Wiwaraworn, "Théorie du liage et expressions nominales en thaï.". 2003.
Anne Dubois, "Les pronoms, les noms de possession inaliénable en créole guyanais et en créole haïtien et la théorie du liage.". 2002.
Nicolas Guilliot, "Les trois "R" en breton: relatives, résomptivité et reconstruction. Vers un modèle de la reconstruction.". 2001.
Valérie Gautier, "Dérivation linéaire et cyclicité.". 2001.
Mélanie Jouitteau, "Le breton: langue VSO ou V2?". 2000.
Marie Hugues Grégoire, "On the morphosyntax of Mauritian Creole.". 2020
Ouras Aljani, "Questions Multiples et Questions Coordonnées : le cas de l'Arabe Syrien Lattaquien.". 2019.
Antoine Cochard, "Arguments nuls en japonais : pro-drop, ellipse d'un DP, ou ellipsis du VP ?". 2018.
Juan-Carlos Romero Ventura, "Relatives à tête interne en Quetchua.". 2017.
Kryzzia Gomez Agudelo, "Arguments lexicaux et arguments nuls dans les constructions infinitives de l'espagnol colombien.". 2015.
Ashraf Allawama, "La négation et la polarité en arabe Jordanien. ".2014.
Elizabeth Heredia Murio, "La Coordination Négative en Espagnol: ni simple, ni double, et ni siquiera.". 2014.
Aurore Gonzalez, "Coordination négative en français: ni, ni....ni, et ni même.". 2013.
Sophie Moracchini, "Interface Syntaxe-Sémantique des Constructions Comparatives: Le cas du vietnamien.". 2012.
Hanh Nguyen, "Questions-wh en Thai.". 2011.
Isabelle Robin, "La négation en gallo.". 2010.
Jiyoung Choi, "Arguments nuls en coréen.". 2008.
Guillaume Thomas, "Les items de libre-choix.". 2005.
Dafina Ratiu, "Questions-wh multiples en roumain.". 2004.
Anamaria Falaus, "Sur la syntaxe comparée des critiques en français et en roumain.". 2003.
Youngjune Jang, "Les anaphores à longue distance en coréen.". 2003.
Solwenn Le Ray, "L'acquisition de la condition C.". 2002.
Magda Oiry, "Acquisition des questions à longue distance en français.". 2002.
Frédérique Chaussy, "Acquisition des questions racines en français.". 2002.
Maëlle Jade, "Acquisition des verbes locatifs en français.". 2002.
Anne-Cécile Dupré, "Les nominalisations en français.". 2001.
Thomas Bardet, "Le contrôle du sujet dans les complétives infinitives en français.". 2001.
Anne Dubois, "Morphosyntaxe comparée des anaphores en créole guadeloupéen et créole guyanais.". 2001.
Nicolas Guilliot, "Syntaxe comparée des relatives restrictives en breton et en gallois.". 2001.
Valérie Gautier, "Dérivation linéaire et cyclicité.". 2001.
Katell Léon, "Le temps et l'aspect en breton.". 2001.
Valérie Gautier, "Unification Grammaire / Parsing.". 2000.
Leora Bar-el, "On The Stage vs. Individual Level Distinction in SqwXwú7mish: A look at Adverbs of Quantification.". 1998.
Elizabeth Currie, "Topic Time: the Syntax and Semantics of SqwXwú7mish Temporal Adverbs.". 1997.
Wen Li, "Passives in Mandarin Chinese Revisited.". 1994.
Taylor Roberts, "Ergativity in St’át’imcets Salish.". 1994.
Nicole Horseherder, "Binding and Argument Structure in Navaho.". 1998.
Lisa Chang, "WH-in-Situ Phenomena in French.". 1997.
Cora Li, "The Syntax of the "Bey" Construction in Cantonese." 1997.
Carrie Gillon, "Relative Clauses in SqwXwú7mish. BA Honors Thesis". 1998.
Chris Reintges, "Anatomy of a Linguistic Universal, Greenberg's Sixth Universal and the VSO/SVO Alternation in Early Egyptian.". Defended at the University of Nantes, January 27, 2020.
Jury: Enoch Aboh (Amsterdam), Sabrina Bendjaballah (CNRS – Nantes), Lisa Cheng (Leiden), Hamida Demirdache (Nantes, Director), Catarina Donati (Paris Diderot), Ruth Kramer (Georgetown)
Bridget Lynn Copley, "Fonction combinatoire du langage. Structure et interprétation.". Defended at the University of Nantes, June 5, 2018.
Jury: Hamida Demirdache (Nantes, Director), Brenda Laca (Paris 8), Cléo Condoravdi (Stanford University), Louise McNally (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Manfred Krifka (Humboldt-Universit, at zu Berlin/Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft).
Isabelle Roy, "Fonction combinatoire du langage. Structure et interprétation.". Defended at the University of Nantes, November 19, 2015.
Jury: Hamida Demirdache (Nantes, Director), Léa Nash (Paris 8, Jury President), David Adger (Queen Mary University of London), Hagit Borer (Queen Mary University of London, Reviewer), João Costa (Universidade Nova de Lisboa), Ur Shlonsky (Université de Genève, Reviewer)
Nicolas Guilliot, "La structuration de la phrase : enjeux syntaxiques, sémantiques, prosodiques, et cognitifs.". Defended at the University of Nantes, December 6, 2019.
Jury: Claire Beyssade (Paris 8e), Giuliano Bocci (Università di Bologna), Carlo Cecchetto (CNRS –Paris 8), Nicole Dehé (Universität Konstanz), Elisabeth Delais-Roussarie (CNRS – Nantes, Director) Hamida Demirdache (Nantes), Dominique Sportiche (University of California at Los Angeles)
Anamaria Fălăuş, "Logic and Inference in Natural Language: the View from Romanian.". Defended at the University of Nantes, November 22, 2019.
Jury: Gennaro Chierchia (Harvard), Veneeta Dayal (Yale), Hamida Demirdache (Nante), Ricardo Etxepare (CNRS – Université de Pau), Orin Percus (Nantes).
Bronze Medal 2019, CNRS
Junan Victor Pan, "Les dépendances A' en chinois mandarin: interrogatives, périphérie gauche et résomptivité.". Defended at the Université de Paris Diderot, June 21, 2016.
Jury: Hamida Demirdache (Nantes), Catarina Donati (Paris Diderot), Alain Peyraube (CNRS, Jury President, Reviewer), Alain Rouveret (Université Paris Diderot, Sponsor), Wei Tien Dylan Tsai (National University of Tsinghua, Taiwan)
Rafael Marin, "La stativité dans tous ses états.". Defended at the University of Paris 8, January 17, 2014.
Jury: Brenda Laca (Université Paris 8, Sponsor), Lucia Tovena (Paris Diderot, Jury President, Reviewer), Ignacio Bosque (Universidad Complutense), Hamida Demirdache (Nantes, Reviewer), Louise McNally (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Reviewer)
Orin Percus, "Les structures interprétées.". Defended at the University of Nantes, February 1, 2010.
Jury: Benoît de Cornulier (Nantes, Sponsor), Hamida Demirdache (Nantes, Jury President), Irene Heim (MIT, Reviewer), François Recanati (CNRS), Philippe Shlenker (CNRS, Reviewer). Third Reviewer: Angelika Kratzer (UMASS)
2021 - 2022 – Sophie Moracchini
4-months Postdoctoral Research funded under the Programme de Prématuration CNRS "CHILL (Children’s Development of Logical Language and Mathematical Concepts) Serious Games".
2020 - 2021 – Charlotte Hauser
Postdoctoral Research funded under the Programme de Prématuration CNRS "CHILL (Children’s Development of Logical Language and Mathematical Concepts) Serious Games".
2018 - 2019 – Oana Lungu
Postdoctoral Research funded under the Programme de Prématuration CNRS "CHILL (Children’s Development of Logical Language and Mathematical Concepts) Serious Games".
2015 - 2018 – Jiyoung Choi
Post-doctoral Research funded under the AThEME (Advancing the European Multilingual Experience) Large Scale Integrated Research Project (FP7-SSH) of the European Commission.
Xiaoqian Zhang, " Les Expressions Duratives en Chinois Mandarin. Une étude sur l'aspect.". Defended at the Université de Paris Diderot on July 4, 2016.
Jury: Bianca Basciano (Università Ca'Foscari Venezia, Reviewer), Hamida Demirdache (Nantes University , Jury President), Victor Junan Pan (Université de Paris Diderot), Monika Rathert (Universität Wuppertal, Reviewer), Lucia Tovena (Université de Paris Diderot, Thesis Director)
Isabel Garcia del Real, "The acquisition of tense and aspect in Spanish.". Defended at the University del Pais Vasco, Vitoria Gasteiz, on November 9, 2015.
Jury: Fabrizio Arosio (Université degli Studi di Milano Bicocca), Aurora Bel Gaya (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Hamida Demirdache (Nantes, External Examiner), Maria José Ezeizabarrena (University del Pais Vasco, Supervisor), Junkal Gutierrez Mangado (Universidad del Pais Vasco), Angeliek van Hout (Groningen University, Supervisor), Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria (Universitair del Pais Vasco, External Examiner)
Teresa Maria Xiqués, "Towards a unified view of the Present Perfect. A comparative study on Catalan, English and Kikuyu.". Defended at the University Autonome de Barcelona on July 14, 2015
Jury: Anna Bartra (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona), Hamida Demirdache (Nantes, External Examiner), Montserrat Batllori (Girona University), Maria Teresa Espinal (Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona), Josep Maria Fontana (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Supervisors: Olga Borik, Josep Maria Brucart (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona)
Kemel Jouini, "Parameters and microparameters in Arabic sentence structure.". Defended at Victoria University of Wellington on February 13, 2014.
Jury: Sash Calhoun (Victoria University of Wellington, Examiner), Hamida Demirdache (Nantes, External Examiner), Elizabeth Pierce (Victoria University of Wellington, Supervisor), Heidi Quinn (University of Canterbury, Examiner), Kabini Sanga (Victoria University of Wellington, Chair)
Nicholas Welch, "The bearable lightness of being: the encoding of coincidence in two-copula languages.". Defended at the University of Calgary on July 8, 2012.
Jury: Hamida Demirdache (Nantes, external examiner), Karsten Koch (University of Calgary), Elizabeth Ritter (Thesis Director, University of Calgary), Leslie Saxon (University of Calgary), Nicole Wyatt (University of Calgary).
Isabelle Charnavel, "Compositionnalité et réflexivité. Anaphores, focus et adjectifs relationnels.". Defended at the Ecole Normale Supérieure ULM on December 5, 2011.
Jury: Dominique Sportiche (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Thesis Co-director), Philippe Schlenker (CNRS, Thesis Co-director), Hamida Demirdache (Nantes, Reviewer), Orin Percus (Nantes, Reviewer), Benjamin Spector (CNRS), Michèle Soria (Université de Paris 6), Laurice Tuller (Université de Tours, Jury President)
Ana de la Fuente Altaba, "Les aspects sémantiques de l'incorporation nominale en nahuatl.". Defended at the Université de Paris 3 on December 14, 2007.
Jury: George Rebuschi (Université de Paris 3, thesis director), Hamida Demirdache (Université de Nantes, Reviewer), Brenda Laca (Université de Paris 8, Reviewer), Jean Léo Léonard (Université de Paris 3, Jury President)
Junan Victor Pan, "Interrogation et Quantification : Le rôle et la fonction des particules et des éléments interrogatifs en chinois mandarin.". Defended at the Université de Nantes on October 19, 2007.
Jury: Paul Boucher (Université d'Angers, thesis director), Hamida Demirdache (Université de Nantes, Jury President), Waltraud Paul (CNRS), Alain Peyraube (CNRS, Reviewer), Jean-Yves Pollock (Université de Paris Est, Reviewer)
Gerhard Schaden, "La sémantique du Parfait. Etude des "parfaits" et de leurs lectures dans quelques langues germaniques et romanes.". Defended on January 27, 2007.
Jury: Brenda Laca (Université de Paris 8, Thesis Director), Hamida Demirdache (Université de Nantes, Reviewer), Wolfgang Klein (Max Planck Institut de Psycholinguistique, Nijmegen), Clive Perdue (Université de Paris 8, Jury President), Lucia Tovena (Université de Paris 7, reviewer), Anne Zribi-Hertz (Université de Paris 8)
Nora Bonne, "La représentation syntaxique du temps: le cas de l'hébreu moderne, de l'arabe standard et dialectal.". Defended on April 8, 2003.
Jury: Alain Rouveret (Université de Paris 7, Thesis Director), Hamida Demirdache (Université de Nantes, Reviewer), Brenda Laca (Université de Paris 8, Reviewer), David Pesetsky (MIT), Georges Rebuschi (Université de Paris 3).