"Sometimes I get so excited thinking about my morning
coffee," Mr. Söderblad said, "I can't fall asleep at night."
Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
I'm a linguist and teach linguistics at the UFR Angellier ("Unité de formation et de recherche Angellier") at the Université de Lille 3 in France. In addition, I'm a member of the research laboratory STL UMR 8163 ("Savoirs, textes, langage / Unité mixte de recherche 8163"), also located at Lille 3.
These include aspect (aspectuality, aspectual composition), adverbial modification, agentivity, modality, lexical semantics, degrees and vagueness, and ontologies for natural language semantics (in particular, the role of events and actions).