Anne Carlier is a professor of linguistics at Sorbonne University in Paris. She specializes in syntax, semantics, and language change, particularly as regards the French language.
Carlier was born in the First Congolese Republic, where she spent the first four years of her life. She was one of six children, and her mother held a doctorate in classical philology. After returning to Belgium, she studied at KU Leuven, where she received her first degree in 1983. Her doctoral thesis, defended in 1992 at the same institution, dealt with articles and generic interpretation in French, and was supervised by Ludo Melis.
From 1993 to 2008, Carlier served as assistant professor at the University of Valenciennes before moving to the University of Lille as full professor. In 2018 she took up her current position as full professor at Sorbonne University, where since 2021 she has directed the research unit Sens Texte Informatique Histoire (Meaning, Text, Computers, History).
Carlier's research interests encompass theories of language change, nominal determination, grammatical aspect, voice and auxiliaries, within the broader domains of morphology, syntax, semantics and (from circa 2000) historical linguistics. She has worked primarily on French, including in a comparative Romance perspective, and has both used and created corpora of French.
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