Elena Soare, Professor of linguistics and formal syntax at the University of Paris 8 since 2021, and a member of the lab Structures Formelles du Langage (SFL) at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. She has been Assistant Professor of linguistics at the University of Paris 8 from 2005 to 2021. She completed her PhD at the University Denis Diderot (Paris 7) in 2002 and her Habilitation in 2013. Her work addresses different aspects of the morphosyntax of Romance languages and recently of Heritage Romanian, including non-finite domains, nominalizations, Tough constructions, relative clauses, case and differential object marking (DOM). She coordinates a project on Heritage Languages in Europe and a project on non-native languages spoken in France (Langues et Grammaires du Monde dans l’Espace Francophone). She is editor of the Sciences du Langage series at Presses Universitaires de Vincennes.
