Hamida Demirdache

Hamida Demirdache is a Canadian linguist specializing in syntax and semantics, known for her work on time and tense.

Education Demirdache received her PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1991; her thesis, which dealt with resumptives in relative clauses, was advised by Noam Chomsky.

Career and research She subsequently held a postdoctoral position at the University of California, Irvine, which like her PhD research was funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada. She is known for her work on Semitic and Salishan languages. She was elected Member of the Academia Europaea in 2023, and appointed senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France from 2023 to 2028.

Selected publications Demirdache, Hamida. 1991. Resumptive chains in restrictive relatives, appositives, and dislocation structures. PhD thesis, MIT. Demirdache, Hamida, and Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria. 2000. The primitives of temporal relations. In Roger Martin, David Michaels & Juan Uriagereka (eds.), Step by Step: Essays on Minimalist Syntax in honor of Howard Lasnik, 157-186. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Demirdache, Hamida, and Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria. 2004. The syntax of time adverbs. In Jacqueline Guéron & Jacqueline Lecarme (eds.), The syntax of time. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Demirdache, Hamida, and Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria. 2007. The syntax of time arguments. Lingua 117 (2), 330–366. Davis, Henry, and Hamida Demirdache. 2000. On lexical verb meanings: Evidence from Salish. In Carol Tenny & James Pustejovsky (eds.), Events as Grammatical Objects. The Converging Perspectives of Lexical Semantics and Syntax, 97–142. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications.