Alumni
Alumni
Can Konuk
PhD dissertation: Causal explanations und continuous computation (2025)
Advisor:S. Mascarenhas
PhD dissertation: Mixed Consequence Logic (2025)
Advisor: P. Egré
Nicolas Guérin
PhD dissertation:
Advisor: E. Chemla
PhD dissertation: On the Theory of Verisimilitude (2024)
Advisor: P. Egré
Co-organizer, LINGUAE lunch
Thomas Souverain
PhD dissertation: How AI classifications impact us: Explaining AI in financial services and job advertising, from technical solutions to ethical issues (2024)
Advisor: P. Egré
PhD dissertation: Conceptual representations in grammar: complex meanings, simple composition (2024)
Advisor: B. Spector
Co-organizer, LINGUAE lunch
PhD dissertation: Investigating musical meaning : Empirical evidence for a music semantics (2023)
Advisor(s): P. Schlenker and J.J. Aucouturier
Co-organizer, LINGUAE lunch
Lena Pasalskaya
DENS 2023
PhD student (with J. Kuhn)
Sign Language (RSL)
PhD dissertation : Phonological contrast and feature inventories in sign language : A study on French Sign Language (LSF) (2022)
Advisor(s): C. Geraci and G. Turco
Current position : Fyssen postdoc at University of Cologne
PhD dissertation : Spatial Relations in Reasoning : a Computational Model (2022)
Advisor(s): P. Egré
Current position : Postdoc at University of Angers
PhD dissertation : Structural and Contextual Factors in Pragmatics (2021)
Advisor(s): B. Spector
Current position : Postdoc at the ILLC, University of Amsterdam
PhD dissertation : Gender in language and gender in the social mind (2021)
Advisor(s): B. Strickland and S. Peperkamp
Current position : Visiting researcher at the Institute of Psychology, University of Bern
(visiting PhD student from Sheffield University)
PhD dissertation : Lexical Illusions, (Non-)Maximality, and Invisible Gaps (2020)
Advisor (at IJN): B. Spector
Current position : Assistant Professor at IPI PAN, Warsaw
Benjamin Icard
PhD dissertation: Mensonge, tromperie et omission stratégique : Définition & évaluation (2019)
Advisor: Paul Egré
PhD dissertation : Language and logic : the cases of negative polarity items and scalar implicatures (2019)
Advisor(s): B. Spector and E. Chemla
Current position : Postdoc at the ILLC, University of Amsterdam
PhD dissertation: Subordination in French Sign Language: Nominal and Sentential embedding (2019)
Advisor(s): C. Donati (LLF) and C. Geraci
Current position: Maître de Conférences at Paris 8
PhD dissertation: Meaning in Context (2019)
Advisor(s): P. Schlenker and B. Spector
Current position: Assistant Professor at MIT
PhD dissertation: Les mots composés dans les langues signées: le cas de la Langue des Signes Italiennes (LIS) et de la Langue des Signes Française (LSF) (2018)
Advisor(s): C. Geraci
Current position: Chargé de Recherche at Paris 8
PhD dissertation: Understanding semantic ambiguities (2018)
Advisor(s): E. Chemla and B. Spector
Current position : Chargée de Recherche at University of Nantes
PhD dissertation: Slurs in Speech and Thought (2018)
Advisor(s): B. Spector and F. Récanati
Current position : Co-founder & CTO at Koncile
PhD dissertation: Gradable Construction in Italian Sign Language (2017)
Advisor(s): P. Schlenker and C. Geraci
Current position : Sign language interpreter at Amazon
PhD dissertation: On the semantics of embedded questions (2016)
Advisor(s): E. Chemla
Current position : Vilnius University
PhD dissertation: Vagueness, Presupposition and Truth Value Judgments (2014)
Advisor(s): P. Egré
Current position : Application developer, Linguistic Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania
Léopold Bouzard
MA1 Student (with P. Egré)
Subject: internship on VAGO
Wenshuo Fan
MA2 Student (with P. Egré)
Subject: Truth in Frege
Nina Gregorio
MA1 Student (with K. Chatain & B. Spector)
Subject: Experimental semantics
Blaž Istenič Urh
MA2 Student (with P. Egré)
Subject: Vague preferences
Ayoub Ouazzani
MA2 Student (with P. Egré)
Subject: Structural realism and Ramsey sentences
Nicolas Poisson
MA1 Student (with B. Spector)
Subject: Reasoning
Daniel Dager
Subject: Single-Word Reading and Repetition in Deep Neural Models
Advisor(s): Y. Lakretz
Amira Ramdani
Subject: Ambiguity of modal verbs
Advisor(s): J. Kuhn
Jeanne Salle
Subject: Stability of solutions found by artificial neural networks
Advisor(s): Y. Lakretz & N. Lan
Matthew Loder
Subject: Formal and experimental semantics and pragmatics
Advisor(s): J. Kuhn & B. Spector
Jessica Lettieri
Research assistant (with C. Geraci)
IJN Sign Language Group
Vincent Mouly
Subject: Semantics and Reasoning
Advisor(s): B. Spector
Lara Narbona Sabate
Subject: Chimpanzees communication
Advisor(s): P. Schlenker, E. Chemla & G. Dezecache
Can Konuk
Subject: Semantics and pragmatics; reasoning and argumentation
Advisor(s): S. Mascarenhas
Aël Quelennec
Subject: Human and artificial learning and language
Advisor(s): E. Chemla
Alina Dracheva
Subject: Reasoning in infants, psycholinguistics
Advisor(s): B. Spector and E. Chemla
Subject: Philosophy of language, semantics, tense and mood semantics
Advisor(s): P. Schlenker and M. Anvari
Maxime Cauté
Subject: Human and artificial learning and language
Advisor(s): E. Chemla
Louis-Marie Lorin
Subject: Superlinguistics of online communication
Advisor(s): J. Kuhn
Marion Bonnet
Intership (2021)
Subject: Gesture and Language modelling: syntax, semantics and their interface
Advisor(s): with C. Geraci & C. Donati
PhD student, Paris 7 (with C. Geraci & C. Donati, )
Acquisition of syntax in LSF
Sam Blanc
Intership (2020)
Advisor(s): S. Mascarenhas
Subject: Sémantique, pragmatique, philosophie du langage et de l’esprit (2019)
Advisor(s): S. Mascarenhas and P. Schlenker
Thomas Hammel
Subject: Phonologie des Langues Signées (2019)
Advisor(s): C. Geraci
Léo Migotti
Subject : Recherches en syntaxe et sémantique musicales (2019)
Advisor(s) : P. Schlenker
Adèle Mortier
Subject: Sémantique et pragmatique des expressions d’approximation numérique (2019)
Advisor(s): P. Egré and B. Spector
Subject: Inferences with disjunction: interpretation or reasoning? (2019)
Advisor(s) : S. Mascarenhas
Quentin Denigot
Subject : Modèles probabilistes de la modalité épistémique (2018)
Advisor(s): B. Spector and S. Mascarenhas
Miguel Flament
Subject : Les sophismes (2018)
Advisor(s) : P. Egré and S. Mascarenhas
Sylvain Grabli
Subject : Les "Why-questions" (2018)
Advisor(s) : P. Egré
Anne-Sophie Hacquin
Subject : Biais d’intentionnalité (2018)
Advisor(s): B. Strickland
Shi Yu
Subject: French sign language phonology : features and constraints (2018)
Advisor(s): C. Geraci
Xiochen Liu
(2017)
Advisor(s): P. Egré
Subject: Co-nominal pointing: toward a formal semantic analysis (2016)
Advisor(s): P. Schlenker and J. Kuhn
(2018)
Advisor(s): B. Spector and E. Chemla