The Centre for Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (CELTA) (EA 3553) was established in 2000 at Sorbonne University. Initially, it was known as Forme-Discours-Cognition until 2003. The centre brings together research teams studying the linguistic problems of modern languages.
A total of twelve project leader professors were responsible for the supervision of approximately fifty junior researchers, of whom most were already in possession of a doctorate or were engaged in research for their PhD. The languages or groups of languages studied were, until 2010, Germanic languages (English, German, Dutch, Scandinavian languages), Romance languages (Catalan, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese), Slavic languages (Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, Montenegrin, Polish, Russian), and Japanese. In 2010, the Romance Languages Group seceded from the Centre to join the Latin Linguistics Group.
The CELTA has cultivated collaborative relationships with research institutes from various European universities, including those from Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, and Sweden, as well as institutions worldwide, such as those in Japan, Russia, and the USA.
Conferences and research sessions were organised at CELTA
Colloque Linéarisation 2002
Colloque Focalisation 2004
Discourse Coherence – Text and Theory (MIC Sorbonne 2008)
Context-bound Communication (MIC Sorbonne 2010)
New Standards for Language Studies (MIC Sorbonne 2012)
Collections of papers were published
Énoncer – l’ordre informatif dans les langues, L’Harmattan, Paris 2004.
La Focalisation dans les langues, L’Harmattan, Paris 2006.
La Cohérence du discours dans les langues slaves, linguistique théorique et textuelle, Revue des études slaves80/1-2, Paris, 2009.
Meta-Informative Centering in Utterances – Between Semantics and Pragmatics, Amsterdam: John Benjamins 2013.