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Faculty of Arts and HumanitiesDepartment of Romance Studies

Research interests

  • Semantics & pragmatics (linguistic reference, information structure)
  • Syntax (syntax of spoken language, syntactic complexity, "stylistic" variation)
  • (Variationist) Corpus linguistics


Presentations

  • Canes Nápoles, Amalia & Eric Engel. 2024. From ninguno to nadie: A variationist approach to negative quantifiers in Spanish. Third International Workshop on Spoken Corpus Linguistics (LingCor), July 2024, Wien.
  • Engel, Eric & Aria Adli. 2024. Grammatical complexity, cognition, and aging. Sixth Conference on Language and Aging Research (CLARe6), April 2024, Tübingen.
  • Adli, Aria & Eric Engel. 2022. What can we learn from microinterviews? (Re-)Using data from an interdisciplinary survey on the very old. Methods in Dialectology XVII (Special session on Advancing Studies in Sociolinguistic Variation and Change in German), August 2022, Mainz.
  • Adli, Aria & Eric Engel. 2021. A panel study at the end of the lifespan: Social and cognitive constraints of syntactic complexity for the very old. Paper presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation 49, October 2021, Austin, Texas.
  • Engel, Eric. 2020. Referenzkontinuität und 'Topik'-Markierung in französischen Interviews [Referential continuity and 'topic' marking in French interviews]. Kolloquium Korpuslinguistik und Phonetik, June 2020, Humboldt University Berlin.
  • Adli, Aria & Eric Engel. 2019. Grammatical complexity of the very old: interplay of cognitive and social factors. Paper presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation 48, October 2019, Eugene, Oregon.
  • Cassarà, Alessia, Eric Engel, Peter Herbeck & Aria Adli. 2019. La relazione tra persistenza topicale, posizione periferica e semantica verbale in spagnolo [The relationship between topic persistence, peripheral position and verbal semantics in Spanish]. XXXVI. Romanistentag, Sektion 13: Linguistische Variation und die Rolle der Schnittstellen in den romanischen Sprachen, October 2019, Kassel.
  • Hartmann, Stefan, Eric Engel & Fahime Same. 2019. Annotating non-standard corpora: State of the art and open questions. International Workshop on the Annotation of Non-Standard Corpora, September 2019, Bamberg.
  • Engel, Eric. 2019. Referenz- und 'Topik'-Management an der Syntax-Diskurs-Schnittstelle [Reference and 'topic' management at the syntax-discourse interface]. Invited talk in the seminar "Syntax: Synchron, diachron, variationistisch, kontrastiv" (Dr. Stefan Hartmann), University of Bamberg, June 2019.
  • Engel, Eric. 2019. Variability in referential choice at the syntax-discourse interface. Kolloquium Korpuslinguistik und Phonetik, January 2019, Humboldt University Berlin.
  • Engel, Eric. 2018. Syntactic prominence in discourse: A corpus-based analysis of topic-marking constructions in French. Poster presented at the 2nd International Conference Prominence in Language, July 2018, Köln.
  • Adli, Aria, Eric Engel, Laurent Romary & Fahime Same. 2018. A stand-off XML-TEI representation of reference annotation. Poster presented at the 40th Annual Meeting of the German Linguistics Society (DGfS), Sektion Computerlinguistik, March 2018, Stuttgart. [link]

Publications

  • Caro Reina, Javier & Eric Engel. 2020. Worttrennung am Zeilenende in frühneuzeitlichen Hexenverhörprotokollen. In Renata Szczepaniak, Lisa Dücker & Stefan Hartmann (eds.), Hexenverhörprotokolle als sprachhistorisches Korpus. Fallstudien zur Erschließung der frühneuzeitlichen Schriftsprache (Reihe Germanistische Linguistik 322), 49–80. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. [link]