Chloé Tahar

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I'm a postdoctoral researcher in linguistics at the Université de Neuchâtel as a member of the Institut des sciences du langage. Before that, I was working as a research engineer at the Laboratoire Ligérien de Linguistique at the Université d'Orléans on the oral corpus of spoken interaction ESLO. I defended my dissertation: "Expletive Negation: from imperatives to connectives. A formal diachronic approach/ La négation explétive: des impératifs aux connecteurs. Approche diachronique et formelle", in April 2022, at the Institut Jean Nicod of the Ecole Normale Supérieure, written under the supervision of Alda Mari.

My research focuses on semantics and the semantics-pragmatics interface, using methods from corpus linguistics. I study more specifically non-truth-conditional (aka ``expletive'') uses of negation, both in a broad approach to this phenomenon and by focusing on the history of French. Additionally, I employ the methods of textual data analysis with the aim of testing, revising and refining existing hypotheses on evidential reportatives.