Elizabeth Stark

Elisabeth Stark has been a full professor of Romance Linguistics since February 1, 2008, with a special focus on French. From 1988 to 1994 she studied German and French at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich to teach at high schools and Romance linguistics (Magister). In 1996 he received his doctorate. She then worked at the Chair of Romance Linguistics at the LMU as a research assistant and from 2003, after completing her habilitation, as a senior assistant. In the same year, she took over the deputy chair for French and Italian Linguistics at the Institute for Romance Studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin and in April 2004 accepted a full professorship for Romance Linguistics at the Institute for Romance Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin. There she also worked as Dean of Studies in the Department of Philosophy and Humanities before accepting the call to Zurich in 2008.

Her research and teaching focuses on the structure of nominal expressions and their typological implications in Romance languages, language variation, especially language use and grammar in new digital forms of communication, and syntax, especially word order and information structure, congruence phenomena, syntax theories and their application in Romance languages.