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Neuchâtel CH-2000, Neuchâtel Switzerland
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Professor of linguistics and discourse analysis, University of Neuchâtel. Head of the BA program in "information and communication sciences". Formerly invited lecturer at the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales (Paris) and at the University of Lugano (Switzerland), lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin, visiting scholar at the University College London and at the French CNRS in Nanycy.
Publications include a monograph on tense and aspect in French, awarded by the Latsis Prize at the University of Geneva.
Topics of research include French semantics and pragmatics, in particular tense, modality and aspect, and theory in the semantics - pragmatics - discourse interfaces.
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