1998: Doctorate of Philosophy in French at The Pennsylvania
State University, University Park, PA.
1990: Preparatory Year to the "Licence" in Psychology
of Language. Université Libre de Bruxelles. Brussels, Belgium.
1989: Teaching Certification for Higher Education in
Belgium, Université Libre de Bruxelles. Brussels, Belgium.
1989: "Licence" in Romance Philology, Université
Libre de Bruxelles. Brussels, Belgium.
1987: "Candidature" in Romance Philology, Facultés
Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix. Namur, Belgium.
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE.
2000-2001: Researcher at the Laboratoire
d'analyse et de Technologie du Langage (LATL)
Department of Linguistics, Université de Genève, Switzerland.
Participation in the "FreeText
Project". Task: writing of a linguistically motivated reference grammar
for Learners of French as a Foreign Language to be integrated as part of
the didactic material.
1998-present: Supervisor of one M.Phil research paper.
1992-1996: Graduate Lecturer, Department of French,
The Pennsylvania State University.
1995: Visiting Scholar at the Linguistic Research Center,
Cowell College at The University of California, Santa Cruz.
1991-1992: Exchange Student sent by the Belgian Francophone
Community to the Department of Foreign Languages at The University of Louisiana,
Lafayette.
1990: Researcher at the Université Libre de
Bruxelles Phonetic Institute. Participation in the "Europec Project": development
of a database of spoken French in Belgium.
PUBLICATIONS.
La syntaxe de la quantification négative, in
Annick Englebert et al. eds. (2000). Actes du XXIIe Congrès
International de Linguistique et de Philologie Romanes - Bruxelles, 23-29
juillet 1998. Niemeyer.
An Alternative Proposal for French Negation. Linguistica
Atlantica 21 (1999): 107-136.
De part en part, mordent les vers des maladies.
Analyse métrique d'un poème de Verhaeren. Etudes Francophones
12 (1997): 113-126.
Review of L’Eden entredit: Lecture de La Chanson
d’Eve de Charles Van Lerberghe, by Patrick Laude. Etudes Francophones
11 (1996): 158-161.
Comparaison entre Bruges-la-Morte et Les
Gommes. Ecritures de la Modernité. Présence Francophone
41 (1992): 74-96.
CONFERENCE PAPERS.
(with Lillith Barnaby). Teaching a Reading Course in
French as a Foreign Language Requirement. Presented to the XIII Southeast
Conference on Foreign Languages and Literatures. Rolins College, Winter
Park, FL. March 4-6, 1999.
A Minimalist Approach to the Syntax of Multiple Negation
in French. Presented to the First annual International Conference : Negation
: Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics, organized by the European Studies Research
Institute, University of Salford, North-West Centre for Linguistics. October
30 to November 1, 1998.
La syntaxe de la quantification négative. Presented
to the XXII Congrès de Linguistique et Philologie romanes. Université
Libre de Bruxelles. Brussels, Belgium. July 23-29, 1998.
An Alternative Proposal for French Sentential Negation.
Presented to the Pioneer Project : Perspectives on Negation. University
of Groningen, The Netherlands. August 22-26, 1996.
An Argument from French in favor of the Negative-Criterion.
Presented to the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. San
Diego, CA. January 4-7, 1996.
Analyse métrique d'un poème de Verhaeren.
Presented to the Annual Congress of the Conseil International d'Etudes
Francophones. Quebec City, Canada. April 9-16, 1994.
The Concept of Polyphony in Discourse Analysis. Presented
to the XXIII Annual Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, The Northern
Illinois University, IL. April 1-3, 1993.
ADDRESS.
Département de Linguistique
Laboratoire d'Analyse et de Technologie du Langage
2 Rue de Candolle
CH-1211 Genève 4
Switzerland