This document is a curriculum vitae for Marie-Eve Ritz that summarizes her education and career history. It includes details of her PhD from the University of Paris-Sorbonne in Linguistics, as well as her current position as a Professor of Linguistics at the University of Western Australia. It also lists her fellowships, research grants, publications, conference presentations, and teaching experience.

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CURRICULUM VITAE
Marie-Eve RITZ
Education
Doctor of Philosophy, Linguistics, University of Paris-Sorbonne, Paris IV, December
1990; Obtained with Mention très honorable (Highest Distinction).
• Thesis title: La sémantique du vague: bilan et perspectives (The semantics of
vagueness: past and future perspectives).
Diplôme d’études approfondies (DEA) (Postgraduate Diploma of Advanced Studies)
(Semantics): University of Paris-Sorbonne, Paris IV, September 1985.
• Thesis title: Approaches to vagueness in natural language.
Master of Arts (Linguistics) University of Metz, France, June 1980.
• Thesis title: Logique du langage et logique du monde dans l'oeuvre de Lewis
Carroll (Logic of language and logic of the world in Lewis Carroll's fictional work).
Bachelor of Arts, English and Linguistics, University of Metz, France, June 1978.
Appointments and employmenthistory
Current appointment
Professor (Level D), Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, The University of Western Australia,
since April 2013.
Previous full-time employment
Lecturer (Level C) in linguistics since 2009. Lecturer (Levels B & C), Applied Linguistics,
Faculty of Education, The University of Western Australia, July 1996 – December 2008
• duties: coordinator & Lecturer, Master of Applied Linguistics; LOTE curriculum
unit and Educational Linguistics, Grad DipEd
Fellowships,grants and awardsnominations
Fellowships:
2009-2013: Marie Curie Fellow, Université Denis Diderot Paris 7.
Linguistics, M257,
The University of Western Australia
35, Stirling Highway
CRAWLEY WA6020
AUSTRALIA
(+61) 6488 3513
marieeve.ritz@uwa.edu.au
http://www.uwa.edu.au/people/marie-eve.ritz

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1991–1993: UWA 75th Anniversary Re-Entry, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow,
Linguistics, UWA.
Research grants
2009-2013: European Union FP7 grant: Program “Marie Curie International Research
Staff Exchange Scheme” – Call identifier: FP7–PEOPLE–IRSES–2008
Proposal N° 230818 – TAMEAL
• Title of project: TAMEAL: The interrelation of Tense, Aspect and Modality with
Evidentiality in Australian Aboriginal languages. (€ 82.800). Duration: four years.
(CIs Caudal [Paris VII], Ritz [UWA], Dench [UWA], Schultze-Berndt
[Manchester], Faller [Manchester], Verstraete [Leuven], Roussarie [Paris VIII],
Nordlinger [Melbourne], Stirling [Melbourne]).
2010-2011: UWA International Collaboration Award with Alan Dench ($11.000).
2008-2009: CNRS grant for international collaboration, with Patrick Caudal, Université
Denis-Diderot, Paris 7.
• Title of project: Formal treatment of aspectual, temporal and modal phenomena
in two aboriginal languages of the North West of Australia: Martuthunira and
Panyjima. 2008. CIs Caudal [Paris VII], Ritz [UWA], Dench [UWA],
Roussarie [Paris VIII])
2001: UWA small grant ($11,289.00).
Title of the project: Understanding the meaning of the present perfect: a
comparative study of its uses in English dialects around the world and in some
Romance and Germanic languages.
2000: Australian Research Council (ARC) small grant with Dulcie Engel, University of
Wales, Swansea. $8,051.00.
• Title of the project: The Use of the Present Perfect in Australian English.
1997: ARC small grant ($7,029.00) and Initial Research Grant, UWA ($4000).
• Title of the project: The Semantic Representation of Tense, Aspect and Mood: a
Formal Model for Translation between English and French.
Teaching and Learning grants
1998: Teaching and Learning grant ( $10 000), Faculty of Education, with Keith Punch
and Judith Rochecouste.
• Title of the project: Flexible Delivery of Academic Writing Tuition.
Excellence in teaching/supervision nominations
Nominations for excellence in postgraduate supervision award, 2009, 2008, 1999
Nomination for excellence in teaching, 2013, 2012 (3 units), 2009, 2006
Publications
In preparation:
Ritz, Marie-Eve & Stirling, Lesley. “Temporal distinctions around the present in Kala
Lagaw Ya.” (Presented at the Annual Conference of the Australian Linguistics Society,
Canberra, December 2011)

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Ritz, Marie-Eve. “The ‘hot-news’ perfect: new information and the semantics/pragmatics
interface.” (Presented at the International Pragmatics Association confeference,
Manchester, UK, July 2011).
Ngo, Thanh & Ritz, Marie-Eve. The marker đã in Vietnamese: aspectual properties and
discourse functions’ (presented at ALS 2012).
Submitted:
Ritz, Marie-Eve and Schultze-Berndt, Eva. "Temporal and discourse progression with
‘now/then’: what we can learn from Jaminjung biyang." Lingua.
In Press:
Ritz, Marie-Eve “Relationship between event, reference time and time of utterance and
the representation of present perfect sentences in Australian English narratives.” Journal
article, Cahiers Chronos.
Published refereed journal articles:
Rodriguez-Louro, Celeste & Ritz, Marie-Eve (30%). 2014. “Tense variation at the heart
of Australian narratives.” Australian Journal of Linguistics 34 (4): 540–556.
Caudal, Patrick & Ritz, Marie-Eve (50%). 2012. “Discourse structure and the perfective
evolution of the Australian present perfect: some new hypotheses.” In Nishida , Chiyo
and Cinzia Russi (Eds.) Building a bridge between linguistic communities of the Old and
the New World. Cahiers Chronos 25: 69-89.
Ritz, Marie-Eve (60%), Dench, Alan & Caudal, Patrick. 2012. “Now or then? The clitic –
rru in Panyjima: temporal properties in discourse.” Australian Journal of Linguistics
32(1): 41-72.
Ritz, Marie-Eve. 2010. “The perfect crime? Illicit uses of the present perfect in Australian
police media releases.” Journal of Pragmatics 42: 3400-3417.
Dawkins, Susan, Ritz, Marie-Eve & Louden, William. 2010 “Learning by Doing:
Preservice Teachers as Reading Tutors.” The Australian Journal of Teacher Education
(AJTE), Vol. 34: Iss. 2, Article 4, Available at: http://ro.ecu.edu.au/ajte/vol34/iss2/4.
Ritz, Marie-Eve (70%) & Dench, Alan. 2009. “Le futur en Martuthunira.” Faits de Langue
33, 221-228.
Dawkins, Susan, Ritz, Marie-Eve & Louden, William. 2009. “Evaluating, the practicability
and sustainability of a reading intervention programme, using preservice teachers as
trained volunteers.” Australian Journal of Language and Literacy (AJLL), Vol. 32, No. 2:
136-147
Ritz, Marie-Eve (70%) & Engel, Dulcie, 2008. “Vivid narrative use and the present
perfect in spoken Australian English.” Linguistics 46 (1): 131-160.

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Ritz, Marie-Eve. 2002. ‘The semantics of the Passé Composé in contemporary French:
towards a unified representation.’ In Labeau, Emmanuelle and Pierre Larrivée, Les
temps du passé français et leur enseignement. Cahiers Chronos 9: 31-50.
Engel, Dulcie & Ritz, Marie-Eve (50%). 2000. The use of the Present Perfect in
Australian English.’ Australian Journal of Linguistics 20 (2) :119–140.
Ritz, Marie-Eve. 1993. "La sémantique de la négation en français" Langue Française
98:67-78.
Published book chapters:
Ritz, Marie-Eve. 2012. Perfect tense and aspect. The Oxford Handbook of Tense and
Aspect. Robert Binnick (Ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press: 881-907.
Ritz, Marie-Eve. 2007. “Perfect change: synchrony meets diachrony.” In J. Salmons &
S. Dubenion-Smith (Eds). Historical Linguistics 2005. Amsterdam: John Benjamins:
133-147.
Published encyclopedia article
Ritz, Marie-Eve. 2007. “Algirdas Julian Greimas.” The literary encyclopedia. 3100 words.
http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=1873
Published translation
Ritz, Marie-Eve & Deirdre Wilson. 1992 "Irony and Universe of Belief", translation of
Martin, R. "Ironie et univers de croyance". Lingua 87:77-90.
Reviews
2006 Crosslinguistic Views on Tense, Aspect and Modality (Cahiers Chronos 13)
Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, 2005, in Journal of French Studies (239-249)
2002 Passé et parfait by Carlier, A., Lagae, V. & Benninger, C.(eds), Cahiers Chronos
Vol 6, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2002, in Journal of French Studies, Vol. LVI, No 2, Oxford
University Press: 291 – 292.
2001 Media Education & Change by Johnson, L., New-York: Peter Lang,
2001, in Education Research and Perspectives Vol. 28, No 2, UWA
1993 Knowledge Representation and Metaphor by Cornell Way, E. Dordrecht, Boston,
London: Kluwer, 1991, in The Australian Computer Journal,
http://u2.newcastle.edu.au/~mgdmw/acjbooks
Presentations: International conferences
Invited papers/keynotes
2012: Ritz, Marie-Eve. “So what’s new? The linguistic expression of temporal change:
‘hot-news’ perfect, now and other temporal markers”. Keynote address, colloque Autour
du verbe (“Around the Verb”), Université Paris III (Sorbonne Nouvelle), 21-22 September
2012.

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2008: Ritz, Marie-Eve & Dench, Alan: “From past to future: a study of tense, aspect and
narrative progression in Martuthunira and Panyjima, two languages of the northwest of
Australia.” Presented (by invitation) at Paris 3 sesylia colloquium, Arcachon (France),
25-26 September 2008.
Presentations:
2012: Ritz, Marie-Eve & Schultze-Berndt, Eva. “Time for a change? The clitic =biyang in
Jaminjung.” Australian Linguistics Society Conference, UWA, Perth, 5-7 December
2012.
Ngo, Thanh & Ritz, Marie-Eve. “The marker đã in Vietnamese: aspectual meaning
and discourse functions.” Australian Linguistics Society Conference, UWA, Perth, 5-7
December 2012.
Rodriguez-Louro, Celeste & Ritz, Marie-Eve. “Stories Down Under: Tense variation
at the heart of Australian English narratives.” Australian Linguistics Society
Conference, UWA, Perth, 5-7 December 2012.
Schultze-Berndt, Eva, Ritz, Marie-Eve & Simard, Candide. “And NOW, for something
completely different!” Seventh European Australianist Workshop, School of Oriental and
African Languages (SOAS), University of London, 3-4 April 2012.
2011: Ritz, Marie-Eve. “The ‘hot-news’ perfect: new information and the
semantics/pragmatics interface.” International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) conference,
Manchester (UK), July 2011.
Ritz, Marie-Eve & Stirling, Lesley. “Temporal distinctions around the present in Kala
Lagaw Ya.” The Australian Linguistics Society (ALS) annual conference, Canberra,
December 2011.
2009: Ritz, Marie-Eve & Rodriguez-Louro, Celeste. Against the mainstream: Changes in
present perfect usage in Australian English
and Argentinian Spanish. Paper presented at the Free Linguistics Conference, Sydney,
October 2009.
2009: Ritz, Marie-Eve, Caudal, Patrick & Dench, Alan . “Past time and present
relevance in Panyjima: uses of the past, perfect and passive perfect in discourse.” Paper
presented at the International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA), July 2009, Melbourne.
2009: Ritz, Marie-Eve & Caudal, Patrick. “The perfect in Middle French.” presented at
the Romance workshop, Australian Linguistics Society conferences, Melbourne, July
2009. (By invitation).
2009: Roussarie, Laurent, Caudal, Patrick, Dench, Alan & Ritz, Marie-Eve. “Panyjima
aspectual classes: new perspectives on formal models for event structure.” Chronos
2009, Université Paris 7, September 2009, and Journées de Sémantique et modelisation
(JSM), Paris, April 2009.

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2009: Dench, Alan & Ritz, Marie-Eve. Now and then: an analysis of the semantics of
three temporal clitics in Panyjima. European Australianists workshop, Leuven,
November 2009.
2008: Ritz, Marie-Eve & Caudal, Patrick: On the discourse behaviour of the Australian
Present Perfect: perfective uses in police media reports. International Conference on
Tense, Aspect, Mood, and Modality (Chronos8); University of Texas Austin, October 3-5,
2008.
http://www.utexas.edu/cola/conferences/chronos-8/
2008: Ritz, Marie-Eve & Caudal, Patrick. “On the evolution of the Australian present
perfect towards evidential readings.” Paper presented at the Australian Linguistics
Society Annual Conference, University of Sydney, July 2008.
2006: ‘Relationship between event, reference time and time of utterance and the
representation of present perfect sentences on Australian English oral narratives. Oral
Narration. Temporal patterns and structures in discourse, University of Paris 7, Paris,
France, 30 November- 2 December 2006.
2005: ‘Perfect change: synchrony meets diachrony.’ International Conference in
Historical Linguistics (ICHL XVII), Madison (Wisconsin), 31 July – 5 August.
2003: ‘The use of the present perfect in Australian English: examples of semantic
productivity’, Workshop "Explaining Productivity", Annual meeting of the German
Linguistic Society (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft), Munich, 26 – 28
February 2003.
2002: “Meaning, variation and change: the example of the English present perfect”.
Symposium on Language in Time organised by the Language Sciences Group under the
auspices of the Institute for Advanced Studies, UWA, June 2002.
2001: (with D. M. Engel, 50%) : ‘Joanne in Adelaide has got a story. Is the Australian
perfect behaving like the French passé composé? Evidence from oral narratives.’ at the
Annual Romance Linguistics Seminars international conference, Trinity College,
Cambridge,
2000: (with D. M. Engel, 50%): ‘The Use of the present Perfect in Australian English’ at
the Chronos International conference, Nice, France, May 2000, with D. Engel
(modified version presented at the Australian Linguistics Society annual conference, July
2000, University of Melbourne.
1998 & 1999: 'The Semantics of the Passé Composé: Towards a Unified
Representation.' invited presentation at the International Conference on the Morphology,
Syntax and Semantics of the French Verb, ‘Au commencement était le verbe’(‘In the
beginning was the verb’), Oxford, November 1998
(modified version presented at the international conference ‘Les temps du passé et leur
enseignement’ (‘French past tenses and their teaching’), organised by Pierre Larrivée,
Aston University, Birmingham, UK, March 1999.

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1998: 'Focus on the English Present Perfect’ at the international conference on
innovations in semantics 'Sinn und Bedeutung' in Leipzig, December 1998. (Papers
were refereed with a success rate of 60%)
Other presentations
2009: “The analysis of tense in discourse.” TAMEAL Workshop, Fontainebleau,
September 2009.
2008: ” Past time and present relevance in Panyjima: uses of the past, perfect and
passive perfect in discourse.” With Patrick Caudal. Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle
(LLI), Université Denis-Diderot, Paris.
2005: ‘Perfect change: synchrony meets diachrony.’ linguistic research team (EA 3890),
Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle (Paris III), September 12.
2003: “Meaning, variation and change: the example of the English present perfect” at the
Graduate School of Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, by invitation of Professor Dr
Olga Fischer, February 2003.
2001: ‘Perfects in World Englishes. Educational implications.” at the Graduate School of
Education, UWA, November 2001 with D. Engel.
2001: ‘Have you played Crash Bandicoot before?’ An investigation of the representation
of time in the language of children diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorders (ADD) with
Vivienne Lawrence and Stephen Houghton, CARD annual conference, GSE, UWA.
2001: ‘Semantics and pragmatics: current developments and interdisciplinary research’
Language Sciences Seminar Series, UWA.
2000: ‘The Use of the present Perfect in Australian English’ at the Department of
Linguistics, UWA, April 2000 with D. M. Engel.
2000: ‘Vivid Narrative Use and the Meaning of the Present Perfect’ at the Oxford
Linguistics Circle, Oxford, November 2000 and at the University of Wales, Cardiff,
December 2000, with Dr D. Engel.
2000: ‘Joanne in Adelaide has got a story. Is the Australian perfect behaving like the
French passé composé? Evidence from oral narratives.’ at the University of Wales,
Swansea, December 2000, with D. M. Engel.
Program coordination and committee membership
Program coordination
2010-2011: Chair of linguistics, Faculty of Arts.
2009-2011: Linguistics Honours and Postgraduate Coordinator.
1997-2008: Coordinator of the Master in Applied Linguistics program, Faculty of
Education.

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Universitycommittees and programs:
2012: Elected to Academic Board.
2009: Member of the Research Embedding working party (Courses Review
Implementation at UWA).
2001 – 2007: Member of the UWA Scholarships Committee.
Member of the Ally program since 2002.
Member of the parking appeals committee since 2004.
Faculty committees:
2010: Member of the Faculty of Arts Honours coursework working party.
2009: Member of the Faculty of Arts Post-Graduate coursework working party.
2006-2009: Education Faculty Academic Misconduct Adviser.
2006-2008: Chair of the Ethics Subcommittee, Faculty of Education.
1997–2006: Member of Initial Professional Education Committee, Faculty of Education.
2005–2006: Member of Continuing Professional Education Committee, Faculty of
Education.
Member of Research Committee, Faculty of Education from 1997–2003; then in 2006.
(Acting Chair in semester 2, 1997 and for two months in 1998).
Other service:
2012: member of the organising committee for the Australian Linguistic Society
conference.
2009: member of the scientific committees for "Currents Evolutions of French Tenses',
Aston University (Birmingham, UK) and “Chronos 2009”, Paris 7, France.
2008: Member of examination Panel for Habilitation, Paris III (Eric Corre)
Reviewer for Language, Lingua, Chronos, The Australian Journal of Linguistics, Journal
of French Language Studies, The International Journal of Applied Linguistics, the
Australian Journal of Education and Education Research and Perspectives.
2002: Member of the Language Sciences Discipline Group & organising committee for
the 2002 Symposium on Language in Time.
1999: Member of the reviewing board for the Australian Linguistic Society conference,
and member of the organising committee for the Australian Applied Linguistics
Association annual congress.

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1998-1999: responsible for nominating University representatives on the syllabus
committees (curriculum council) across disciplines.
1997-1999 : member of the nominating panel nominating replacements for university-
based TEE examiners for English as a Second Language.
Membership to organisations
Since 2009: International Pragmatics Association
Since 2000: Australian Linguistics Society
Since 1998: Gesellschaft für Semantik (Association for semantics)
Since 1993: European Language, Logic and Information association
Languages
French: native speaker
English: native fluency in spoken and written English
German: spoken and written: intermediate to advanced level
Spanish: spoken and written: intermediate level (getting basic!)