Paul Roger Bassong is currently a research engineer at the General Linguistics Chair at the Collège de France, Paris, and a lecturer at the University of Yaoundé 1, Yaoundé. Under the supervision of Prof. Luigi Rizzi of the General Linguistics chair, his research focuses on mapping the syntactic structures of African languages in the light of the work of Rizzi (1997), Rizzi and Cinque (2010) and others. He is interested in studying the morphosyntactic properties of African languages from a theoretical and comparative perspective. He holds a PhD in linguistics from the University of Yaoundé 1, where he teaches lectures in formal syntax and comparative linguistics, and has published in journals such as Linguistics and Journal of Linguistics. He has also published in collective works.
As part of his previous doctoral and postdoctoral research, he has been a member of research projects and collaborated in turn with Prof. Gisbert Fanselow at the Universität Postdam (Germany) between 2011 and 2012 in the Sonderforschungbereich 632 project, with Prof. Ken Safir at Rutgers University (USA) in 2015 in The Afranaph Project and with Dr. Kristina Riedel at the University of the Free State (South Africa) between 2018 and 2019.
