"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 Université Lille 3 in France. In addition, I'm a member of the research laboratory UMR 8163 STL (Unité mixte de recherche 8163 "Savoirs, textes, langage"), 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).