Anna Carlier

Anna Carlier is a Full Professor at Sorbonne University, France, with a career spanning institutions such as the University of Lille and the University of Valenciennes. She earned her PhD in French linguistics from the University of Leuven (Belgium) and has directed the Research Unit 'Sens, Texte, Informatique, Histoire' since 2021.

• Research Focus: Expanding from synchronic analysis of Modern French to diachronic studies, her work explores the dynamic evolution of grammar, particularly in the transition from Latin to French and Romance languages. She emphasizes empirical research through open-access corpora like those developed in the ANR-DFG PaLaFra project.
• Leadership Roles: President of the Society for the Diachrony of French, Vice-President of the National Council of Universities (section 7), and Scientific Advisor to the High Council for the Evaluation of Research and Higher Education.

Research Interests include:

• Historical linguistics of French
• Comparative linguistics of Romance languages
• Corpus linguistics and morphosyntax
• Grammatical semantics and linguistic change

Honors & Funding:

• Elected to the Belgian Royal Academy of French Language and Literature (2019)
• CNRS Grant for 'Language and languages at the crossroad of Disciplines' (2023-2027)
• CoRaLHis Project funding (2019-2021)
• ANR-DFG PaLaFra project (2014-2018)
• Labex-TransferS project (2012-2016)