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I am a tenured senior researcher (directrice de recherche) at CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research), working at Laboratoire de Linguistique de Nantes (LLING UMR 6310)

I received my PhD from the University of Nantes in 2009, with a dissertation on polarity and epistemic indefinites in Romanian. Between 2011 and 2014, I was a post-doctoral researcher at the University of the Basque Country in Vitoria-Gasteiz (UPV/EHU) and a member of the Basque Research Group of Theoretical Linguistics (HiTT). In 2019, I obtained my habilitation in linguistics (Logic and inference in natural language : the view from Romanian).

My research focuses on the semantics of natural language and its interface with pragmatics and syntax, from a cross-linguistic perspective. I have worked on negative and positive polarity, as well as free choice phenomena, dealing primarily with epistemic and free choice indefinites in Romance. In more recent work, I have focused on wh-expressions in free relatives and other non-interrogative wh-constructions, as well as the role of wh-expressions in polarity systems across languages. Other topics investigated include neg-words and negative concord, epistemic future and modality, implicatures and alternative semantics.  For details and downloadable papers, check my Publications page.

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Email: anamaria.falaus(at)cnrs.fr