Anne Abeillé

Enseignant-chercheur

General presentation

Research themes

• Experimental Grammar
• French and Romance languages
• Syntactic theories
• Treebanks

CNRS Bronze medal (1995), CNRS Silver medal (2007)

Until 2015, editor of  Langues et Syntaxe serie (Hermès Lavoisier).

Until 2016, Head of Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle (LLF)

IUF junior member (1996-01), Senior member  (2012-2017) and (2024-2029)

Since 2008, member of Academia Europaea

member of the Scientific council of MSH Paris Saclay (previous member of MSH Clermont)

Head of Paris Graduate school of Linguistics (PGSL)

Research projects

On going projects

Inidex Empirical Foundations of Linguistics (2025-2030): Syntactic variation in French, Grammaticla gender, Long distance dependencies

PHC Hubert Curien: Douce (2024-25), with U Orléans and U Mauritius

Understanding Response Systems in Natural Languages (2022-2025): (with J-B Kim), National Research Foundation of Korea

Syntactic variation in French : ILFO (CNRS) (with F Lefeuvre)

Completed projects

• Labex Empirical Foundations of linguistics (EFL) coord. B. Hemforth (2011-2025)
  Head of strand 2 Experimental Grammar in a cross-linguistic perspective
• Coeditor (with D. Godard) of the Grande Grammaire du français (2021) Actes Sud / Editions Imprimerie Nationale
• French treebank
• Evaluating meaning-based approaches to island constraints(NSF)(PI E Gibson, MIT)
• 2017-20 Processing the silence A Theoretical and Experimental Approach (with J-B Kim), National Research Foundation of Korea
• ANR ETAPE (2010-2013; coord G Gravier): Speech recognition evaluation (annotation of a spoken treebank)
• Typological approches to elliptical constructions (with F. Mouret) : Fédération TUL, CNRS (2010-2013)
• PEPS INSII-INSHS (2011-2012) SYFRAP Parsing spoken French (coord. C. Gardent)
•  Grammar Typology of weak forms, with D. Godard, Fédération Typologie et Universaux Linguistiques du CNRS (2007-2010).
• Computer grammar for French based on Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammar (FTAG)

Teaching

List of courses

PhD supervisions

On going Phd Theses

• Antonio Bralineau (CD U Bucarest & BGF; coadv. S. Berbinsky) Ellipsis and anaphora (in French and Rumanian oct 2025)

• Emma Kious (CD): Interpreting the grammatical gender of human nouns (sept 2024)

PhD Theses defended

• Sébastien Barrier (Research engineer, NLP)
• Gabriela Bilbiie (Ass Pr, University Bucarest)
• Marie Candito (Associate Pr, Université de Paris )
• Lionel Clément (Associate Pr Université Bordeaux 1)
• Yanis Da Cunha (Postdoc U Graz)
• Oscar Garcia-Marchena (Assistant Pr, Ecole Polytechnique)
• Anna Gazdik (Assistant Pr, University Mainz;  Researcher Budapest Academy of Science)
• Kim Gerdes (Pr, Université Paris Saclay)
• Fabiola Henri (Assistant Pr, SUNY Buffalo)
• Kil-Soo Ko (Pr, Ulsan University South Korea)
• Ania Kupcs (Associate Pr, Université Bordeaux)
• Jungyeul Park (Research Engineer, NLP)
• Géraldine Walther (Ass Pr, G Manson , Washington)
• Aoi Shirashi (SPC Grant), 2018, Ass Pr, U Tokyo
• Shrita Hassamal (Lecturer MIE, Mauritius)
• Daniel Rojas-Plata (coadv B. Fagard)(Conacyt) (Ass Pr Mexico city)
• Aixiu An (grant China research council) 2020. Postdoc U Geneva
• Elodie Winckel (DFG) (with S Muller, Humboldt U) Subject island in French: empirical and theoretical approaches, 2021 (Postdoc U Erlangen)

• Ruiha Mao (coadv B. Hemforth) (CD international with E. Gibson), Meaning based approach to locality constraints: a comparative study, (oct. 2021)

• Amal Hassen : Exclamative and interrogative sluices (with J Ginzburg) (oct 2025) Postdoc U Sarrebrück

Supervision of Habiltations (HD)

• Philippe Blache (DR CNRS LPL AMU)
• Pollet Samvelian (PR Université Paris 3)
• Emmauel Schang (MC Orléans)
• Tatiana Nikitina (DR CNRS Llacan)

Bibliography

List of publications