Research

Research LaboratoryATILF- Analyse et Traitement Informatique de la Langue Française (UMR 7118) - CNRS & Université de Lorraine

Research interests in German and Contrastive Linguistics

    • Syntax - Right periphery - Nachfeld
    • Text linguistics
    • Media linguistics
    • Theories of argumentation 
    • Lexical morphology
    • Corpus linguistics

2023-...: Member of the Scientific Advisory Board (Wissenschaftlicher Beirat )  at the Leibniz-Institute of German Language (IDS), Mannheim, Germany

2018-2022: Member of the International Scientific Council (= Internationaler Wissenschaftlicher Rat) at the IDS 

 

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2016. Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR = French post-doctoral degree to supervise PhD students). Linearization and Reference in contemporary German.

2009-2010: Post-Doc (Humboldt Fellowship for experienced researchers) - "Information structure, anaphoric reference and discourse organization"

2004Doctoral dissertation in German Linguistics (University of Paris-Sorbonne – Paris IV). Title: "Postfield Constituents as a Result of a Right Projection or an Addition in Contemporary German" (« Réalisations ‘originales’ de l’après-dernière position en allemand contemporain – Projection à droite & Adjonction »). PhD Adviser: Prof. Martine Dalmas.

National and European research projects

 

2023/25: coordination of the ANR's project EuLaWa (ANR = French National Research Agency)
Programme : « Montage de Réseaux Scientifiques Européens ou Internationaux » - Edition 2023, Vague 1 (Plan d’action 2023 Construction de l’espace européen de la recherche et attractivité internationale)

 

2023/24-2026/27: cooperation with the Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS, Mannheim) 
Associated member in two projects : 
Grammatik des Deutschen im Europäischen Vergleich, Fragesätze
 (GDE-F)
Grammatische Strukturen im gesprochenen Deutsch 

 

2021-2022 : project leader of the European Network of German and Contrastive Linguistics (GerCoLiNet). A Research-Education Interface (methodology, teaching and in-field experience)
More details HERE.

 

2018-2021. Deutsch-Mittelmeerisches Forschungsnetzwerk im Bereich Sprachwissenschaft

(Prof Athina Sioupi, Thessaloniki (2017 Humboldt Alumni Award for Innovative Networking Initiatives)

The DeMiNeS („Deutsch-Mittelmeerisches Netzwerk Sprachwissenschaft”) is a research network funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2017 Humboldt Alumni Award for Innovative Networking Initiatives to me) that supports the cooperation between Germany, Greece and other mediterranean countries in the fields of research and teaching. Activities: Workshop and Summer School

 

2007-2012: collaborator for the French part in the European grammatically project “EuroGr@mm” / ”ProGr@mm kontrastiv” with the IDS (Mannheim) and in cooperation with the universities of Genua (Italy), Oslo (Norway), Szeged (Hungary), Wroclaw (Poland).

 

Editorial Activities 

Editorial Boards

      2024-...   International Journal of Language and Linguistics  (Science Publishing Group - open access)
      2023-…  Konvergenz und Divergenz, Sprachvergleichende Studien zum Deutschen (De Gruyter)
      2023- ...  Arcana Linguistica – Germanistische Sprachwissenschaft international (Franz Steiner Verlag)

Scientific Committees 
       2018-…  Linguistik in Empirie und Theorie / Empicial and Theoretical Linguistics (Metzler)

Reviewing Committees
       2012-… Studia Linguistica (Wroclaw/Breslau)
       2012- … Beiträge zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Sprachwissenschaft (Wroclaw/Breslau)

Reviews (occasionally)

2022-… Romanische Forschungen. Vierteljahrsschrift für romanische Sprachen und Literaturen 
2018-… Deutsche Sprache

2016-… Grazer Linguistische Studien

 

Address

Université de Lorraine
Campus Lettres et Sciences Humaines de Nancy
UFR Arts, Lettres et Langues
23, boulevard Albert 1er
BP 60446
F-54001 Nancy
France

Contact:
helene.vinckel-roisin@univ-lorraine.fr
helene.vinckel-roisin@atilf.fr