Je suis Maître de Conférences à l’Université Nice Sophia-Antipolis.
Ma recherche et mon enseignement portent sur la linguistique générale, le grec ancien et le latin, notamment sur l’interface entre syntaxe et sémantique et sur les propositions wh-. Ils ont aussi une orientation typologique.
Ma thèse a porté sur « les subordonnées interrogatives dans la prose grecque classique », ce qui m’a amené à étudier entre autres des thèmes comme la syntaxe et la sémantique des questions, les verbes d’attitude propositionnelle et leur construction, la subordination, les présuppositions et la factivité.
Je continue à m’intéresser à ces sujets, mais du point de vue de l’architecture de la grammaire.
Revue de Sémantique et Pragmatique, Presses de l'Université d'Orléans, 2016, 40
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This article is an introduction to the special issue of the Revue de Sémantique et Pragmatique on Exclamation and Intersubjectivity. It points out that Exclamations were misleadingly restricted to the ego-area. They are actually involved in dialogs. They are context-sensitive and even include information transmission as one of their felicity conditions. Cross-linguistic data show that they play a particularly important role in situations of negotiation and argumentation.
Association des Études grecques, Jan 2016, Paris, France. Actes de l'Association des Études grecques (Revue des études grecques), 129, pp.XIV-XV, 2016
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In this παπερ, we examine a puzzling usage of the relative ὅστις. In spite of its indefinite semantics, it can show up with definite terms, an issue first raised a long time ago. We claim here that these expressions [definite term + ὅστις] actually come in three clearly distinct types, none of which can be explained as a neutralization with ὅς, nor by means of the generalizing meaning of ὅστις. In the first case, we are dealing with a rare formula and its variants (ὅστις νῦν + passive verb) limited to the historical literature. In the second case, ὅστις means ‘whoever’. We focus on the third case in this study. The ὅστις relative clause plays a role at two levels. First it determines the noun to which it is attached (as ὅς may), second it is an argument in favor of a disputable speech act (an option not available to ὅς). We argue that this pragmatic usage is just an instance of the more general, non identificational semantics of ὅστις.