Research interests

Is specialized in Syntax. The comparative approach to Syntax has always been the trademark of the education she received at the University of Geneva. From September 2005 to June 2006, she had the opportunity to visit New York University in order to receive further training in Semantics.

In march 2008, she defended her Ph.D under the supervision of Genoveva Puskás and Ur Shlonsky. The focus of her dissertation was the relationship(s) between structure and interpretation. More precisely, the aim was to determine how much syntax interacts with semantic systems. In order to do this, she investigated the semantic and syntactic aspects of various quantificational items in French. This study has yielded a new typology of these elements.

In 2009, she spent a year at the Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle in Paris VII/CNRS 7110, where she collaborated with Cédric Patin in trying to understand the nature of the relationship(s) between wh-phrases (in-situ, ex-situ) and prosody.

She is currently working as a post-doc on the project "La syntaxe du subjonctif" with Genoveva Puskás, Ur Shlonsky and Tomislav Socanac.

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