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I am an Associate Professor at the Université Paris-Cité working in the ALTAE linguistics lab.

My research focuses on issues in usage-based cognitive linguistics (especially Construction Grammar), sociolinguistics and English dialectology, and language variation and change, with interests in a range of empirical and quantitative methods.

This website provides a summary of my activities, as well as means of getting in touch.

Thank you for your visit!

Recent projects:

• Personification metaphors of generative AI (AI & Society)
• How register and region shape the language network (Constructions)
• Sarcasm and impoliteness in interrogative constructions (Journal of Politeness Research)
• The role of register in the contraction of gonna (English Language and Linguistics)
• The principle of no equivalence: an agent-based model (Cognitive Linguistics)

Upcoming events:

24 June 2026: invited online talk for the University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)

26–29 August 2026: SLE 59 (Osnabrück, Germany)

4 December 2026: invited online lecture for the University of São Paulo (Brazil)