This volume is devoted to the syntax and semantics of various languages, studied with models based on constraints. Both French and international linguists present their work in tribute to Danièle Godard, emeritus research director at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique in France, a member of the Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle at Université Paris Diderot, and a specialist in the syntax and semantics of French and Romance languages.
Anne Abeillé, Paris Diderot Anne Abeillé is Professor of Linguistics at University of Paris, and a member of Laboratoire de Linguistique formelle. She was research assistant at U.Penn, and assistant professor at University of Paris 8. She did her PhD on Lexicalized Tree Adjoining grammars at University of Paris 7, before moving to Head-Driven Phrase structure Grammar and collaborating with Ivan Sag.
She has mainly worked on the syntax of French and Romance languages, but also on Mauritian (a French-based creole) and English. Her main research goal is to combine a wide range of empirical data (from large corpora and experiments) with theoretical and formal analysis. Her publications include 5 books and more than 70 papers, in journals such as Langue française, Langages, Language, Journal of Linguistics, Lingua, Glossa, TAL, and conference Proceedings, such as COLING, ACL, LREC, HPSG, CUNY, Amlap, and CSSP.
She has been responsible for several research projects, including the FrenchTreebank. She now is responsible for the strand Experimental Grammar in a cross-linguistic perspective of the EFL LabEx, and a coeditor (with Danièle Godard) of the Grande Grammaire du français.