Hamida Demirdache#
| Membership Number: | 6437 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2023 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.univ-nantes.fr/hamida-demirdache |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-2355-7608 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2023 - 2028 Senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF)
- 2022 - present Director of the Nantes Linguistics Lab (LLING) UMR 6310, Nantes University, CNRS
- 2021 - 2015 Deputy Scientific Director, Institute of Humanities & Social Science, CNRS
- 2015 - 2004 Director & Founder of the Nantes LLING lab (EA 3827) which became a CNRS lab as of January 1rst, 2016
- 2008 - present Full Professor, Department of Language Science, Nantes University (Exceptional Class 2 since 2021)
- 2008 - 1998 «Maître de Conférences», Department of Language Science, Nantes University
- 2006 - 2005 Visiting Scientist, Leiden University French-Dutch bilateral cooperation (Royal Dutch Academy of Arts & Sciences)
- 1998 - 1993 Lecturer, Department of Linguistics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
- 1998 - 1993 Co-investigator, Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada Grant, University of British Columbia
- 1993 - 1991 Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California at Irvine
- 1991 - 1990 Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada Ph.D. Fellow, MIT
Fields of Scholarship
- Syntax of Logical-Form (LF Syntax)
- Limits of linguistic diversity
- Semitic
- Syntax - Semantics - Acquisition Interfaces
- Experimental methodology for probing linguistic knowledge at the syntax semantics interface
- Under-represented languages
- Temporal and nominal anaphora
- Salish
- A'-dependencies (questions, relatives, resumption)
Honours and Awards
- 2022 - 2025 ANR coordinator ANR-DFG project «Boolean connectives: probing the interplay between Language & Logic» (FRAL 2022 – in collaboration with the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)) DFG coordinator: Artemis Alexiadou (Humboldt University)
- 2020 - 2024 Research & doctoral supervision award («Prime d’Encadrement Doctoral et de Recherche» (PEDR)), awarded by the Ministry of Higher Education, Research & Innovation
- 2018 - 2021 CNRS Prematuration Program «CHILL (Children’s Development of Logical Language & Mathematical Concepts) Serious Games: the Cool Boole School game.»
- 2016 - 2020 Research & doctoral supervision award («Prime d’Encadrement Doctoral et de Recherche» (PEDR)), awarded by the Ministry of Higher Education, Research & Innovation
- 2014 - 2019 Coordinator Work Program 3 «Heritage languages and language users in the EU» AThEME Advancing the European Multilingual Experience Large Scale Integrated Research Project (FP7-SSH)
- 2014 - 2015 Van Gogh Program between the Netherlands & France. «A Crosslinguistic Perspective on Children’s Acquisition of Grammar-Meaning Interfaces.» French-Dutch bilateral collaboration with A. van Hout (Groningen University)
- 2012 - 2015 Elected member of the National Committee of the CNRS, Section 34 «Sciences of Language»
- 2013 - 2014 Invited member, Social Sciences and Humanities Vice-President of the Scientific Steering Committee for the All Knowledge Challenge (Challenge 10) [«Comité de Pilotage Scientifique (CPS) du défi De Tous Les Savoirs (Défi 10)»]] of the French National Research Agency (ANR), President: Etienne Klein (CEA)
- 2013 « Accueil en Délégation » CNRS (Research stay at the IKER center UMR 5478 Bayonne)
- 2012 - 2016 Scientific excellence award («Prime d'excellence scientifique» (PES)) awarded by the Ministry of Higher Education and Research
- 2011 - 2012 Elected member of the National Committee of the CNRS, Section 34 «Sciences of Language»
- 2011 Nominated by decree of the Prime Minister to the rank of «Chevalier dans l’ordre des Palmes académiques» (Knight of the order of Academic Palms)
- 2008 - 2012 Scientific excellence award («Prime d'excellence scientifique» (PES)) awarded by the Ministry of National Education, Higher Education and Research
- 2007 - 2008 Nominated member, National Council of the Universities (CNU), section 07 Sciences of Language (Sciences du langage : linguistique et phonétique générales)
- 2004 - 2008 Research & doctoral supervision (PEDR) award, Ministry of Higher Education & Research
- 2003 Laureate of the Descartes-Huygens Prize, awarded by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Science (Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappe) in the fields of material sciences, life sciences, human & social sciences
- 1998 - 2001 Co-investigator, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Grants, «Diversity and the limits of linguistic variation: interface issues in Salish», University of British Columbia, Vancouver
- 1995 - 1998 Co-investigator, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Grants, «Lexical Interfaces with Syntax and Phonology in Northwest Coast Languages», University of British Columbia, Vancouver
- 1991 - 1993 Post-Doctoral Fellowship awarded by Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada «The Syntax of Relatives and Dislocation in Morphologically Ergative Languages» (fellow at MIT from 1991 to 1992 and at the University of California at Irvine from 1992 to 1993)
- 1988 - 1990 Doctoral Fellowship awarded by the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada grant (Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, MIT)
