!!Anna Carlier - Biography
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I earned a PhD in French linguistics from the University of Leuven (Belgium) and then embarked on an academic career in France. Starting as an Associate Professor at the University of Valenciennes, I later became Full Professor at the University of Lille, and currently serve at Sorbonne University.\\
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Throughout this geographical and institutional journey, my field of research has gradually expanded. While my initial focus was on the synchrony of Modern French, I realized the limitations of this synchronic approach, understanding the competition between an older grammar and emerging new structures. This realization shifted my research towards the history of the French language. Viewing diachrony as more than a tool to better analyze modern French, I discovered it as a fascinating area of investigation in itself, allowing me to consider the faculty of language in a dynamic perspective and to observe empirically how grammar is created or recreated in the interaction of communication as a cognitive and social activity. As a Romanist, studying the evolution of French made me observe that other Romance languages, while innovating with respect to their Latin origin, have evolved at a slower rate than French. Building on this hypothesis, I systematically developed a comparative perspective among Romance languages. A significant aspect of my research involves building open-access corpora through funded projects, thus opening new fields of investigation to empirical research. These corpora have documented the early stages of French (ANR Project Corptef) as well as the transition from Late Latin to French and Romance languages (ANR-DFG project PaLaFra).\\
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Elected as a member of the Belgian Royal Academy of French Language and Literature, I also served as President of the Society for the Diachrony of French, contributing to animate the field of French historical linguistics. Additionally, my expertise spans Romance and general linguistics, evidenced by invited lectures, contributions to handbooks, and thesis supervisions. I've also played a role in research evaluation in France, holding positions such as Vice-President of the National Council of Universities (section 7) and Scientific Advisor to the Research Department of the High Council for the Evaluation of Research and Higher Education. I am currently director of my research unit.\\ \\[{ALLOW view All}][{ALLOW edit acarlier}][{ALLOW upload acarlier}][{ALLOW comment All}]