UNIVERSITÄT ZU KÖLN

Published works

(i) Books and other monographs:

• Guy, Gregory R., Adli, Aria, Bayley, Robert, Beaman, Karen V., Erker, Daniel & Orozco, Rafael (forthcoming). Subject Pronoun Expression: A Cross-Linguistic Variationist Sociolinguistic Study. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Adli, Aria, Marco García García & Göz Kaufmann (2015). Variation in Language - Usage-based vs system-based approaches. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
• Adli, Aria (2011). Gradient Acceptability and Frequency Effects in Information Structure: a quantitative study on Spanish, Catalan, and Persian. Habiliation, University of Freiburg.
• Adli, Aria (2004). Grammatische Variation und Sozialstruktur. Berlin: Akademie Verlag.

(ii) Journal-papers: 

• Pescuma, Valentina N., Serova, Dina, Lukassek, Julia, Sauermann, Antje, Schäfer, Roland, Adli, Aria, . . . Knoeferle, Pia (2023). Situating language register across the ages, languages, modalities, and cultural aspects: Evidence from complementary methods. Frontiers in Psychology, section Language Sciences.
• Cassarà, Alessia, Adli, Aria & Karssenberg, Lena (2022). Clefts in context: A QUD-perspective on c’est/ il y autterances in spoken French. Isogloss. Open Journal of Romance Linguistics 8(1): 1–29.
• Lüdeling, Anke, Alexiadou, Artemis, Adli, Aria, Donhauser, Karin, Dreyer, Malte, Egg, Markus, . . . Zeige, Lars Erik (2022). Register: Language Users’ Knowledge of Situational-Functional Variation. Register Aspects of Language in Situation (REALIS) 1(1): 1–58.
• Adli, Aria & Gregory R. Guy (2022). Globalizing the study of language variation and change: a manifesto on cross-cultural sociolinguistics. Language and Linguistics Compass.
• Adli, Aria (2019). Topic chains in dialogue. Journal of Pragmatics 154: 39–62.
• Adli, Aria (2013). Syntactic Variation in French Wh-Questions: a quantitative study from the angle of Bourdieu’s sociocultural theory. Linguistics 51(3): 473–515.
• Adli, Aria (2011). A Heuristic Mathematical Approach for Modelling Constraint Cumulativity: Contrastive Focus in Spanish and Catalan. The Linguistic Review, 28(2), 111–173.
• Adli, Aria (2010). Constraint Cumulativity and Gradience: Wh-Scrambling in Persian. Lingua 120(9): 2259–2294.
• Adli, Aria (2010). The Semantic Role of the Wh-Element and Subject Position in Spanish and Catalan. STUF – Language Typology and Language Universals 63(2), 103–117.
• Adli, Aria (2006). French wh-in-situ questions and syntactic optionality: Evidence from three data types. Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft 25, 163–203.

(iii) International refereed contributions to books:

• Adli, Aria (2022). Coherence and implicational hierarchies in the speech of the very old. In K. V. Beaman & G. R. Guy (Eds.), The Coherence of Linguistic Communities: Orderly Heterogeneity and Social Meaning. Routledge.
• Adli, Aria (2017). Variation in style: Register and lifestyle in Parisian French. In Isabelle Buchstaller & Beat Siebenhaar (eds.), Selected papers from the 8th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 8), 175–171. Amsterdam & New York: John Benjamins.
• Adli, Aria (2015). What you like is not what you do: acceptability and frequency in syntactic variation. In Aria Adli, Marco García García & Göz Kaufmann (eds.), System, Usage, and Society. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
• Adli, Aria (2011). On the Relation between Acceptability and Frequency. In Esther Rinke & Tanja Kupisch (eds.), The development of grammar: language acquisition and diachronic change - Volume in honour of Jürgen M. Meisel, 383–404. Amsterdam, New York: Benjamins.
• Adli, Aria (2005). Gradedness and Consistency in Grammaticality Judgments. In Stephan Kepser & Marga Reis (eds.), Linguistic Evidence: Empirical, Theoretical, and Computational Perspectives, 7–25. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

(iv) Other contributions to books:

• Adli, Aria (2014). Kurdisch und Persisch. In Joanna Blaszczak, Hans-Martin Gärtner & Hubert Truckenbrodt (Hrsg.), Sprachen an Deutschlands Schulen, 175–195. Heidelberg: Spektrum Akademischer Verlag.
• Adli, Aria (2005). Die Extraktions- vs. Parenthesedebatte: eine Diskussion anhand französischer Daten. In Georg A. Kaiser (ed.), Deutsche Romanistik — generativ, 13–30. Tübingen: Narr.
• Adli, Aria (2005). El habitus incorporado y la variación gramatical. In Lluís Payrató, Nuria Alturo & Marta Payà (eds.), Les fronteres del llenguatge: Lingüística i comunicació no verbal, 223–245. Barcelona: Publicacions de la Universitat de Barcelona.
• Adli, Aria (2004). Y a-t-il des morphèmes intonatifs impliqués dans la syntaxe interrogative du français? Le cas du qu-in-situ. In Trudel Meisenburg & Maria Selig (eds.), Nouveaux départs en phonologie: les conceptions sub- et suprasegmentales, 199–215. Tübingen: Narr.

(v) Conference Proceedings

• Adli, Aria (2006). French wh-in-situ questions and the interaction between phonology, syntax and social structure. In Proceeding of SICOL 2006, Hong-Pin Im (ed.), 307–311. Seoul: Linguistic Society of Korea.
• Adli, Aria (2006). Grammaticality Judgments with Auditory Stimuli: Taking into Account Intonation and Interpretation of French wh-in-situ. In Preproceedings of the International Conference on Linguistic Evidence, Wolfgang Sternefeld, Uwe Mönnich, Hubert Truckenbrodt and Sam Featherston (eds.), Tübingen: SFB 441 "Linguistic Data Structures".
• Adli, Aria (2004). Distinction and syntactic optionality. In Proceedings of the 5th Conference on Linguistics 2001, Mohammad Dabir-Moghaddam (ed.). Tehran: Allameh Tabatabai University.

(vi) Linguistic Corpus/Treebank Construction

• Adli, Aria, Verhoeven, Elisabeth, Lehmann, Nico, Mortezapour, Vahid & Vander Klok, Jozina (2023). Lang*Reg: A multi-lingual corpus of intra-speaker variation across situations (0.1.0) [Data set].
• Adli, Aria (2005-2019). sgs [spontaneous speech, grammaticality judgments, social data], multilingual database of Persian, French, Spanish and Catalan containing syntactically annotated transcriptions of spontaneous speech, 67 hours of digitized acoustic data, acceptability judgments, social metadata of 254 speakers, as well as the query software sgsTree. Sociolinguistic Lab, Universität zu Köln

(vii) Computer programs and test design

• Adli, Aria (2010). Computer-based gradient acceptability judgment test for auditory stimuli [see the online demo; further details in The Linguistic Review paper, 2011]. 

(viii) Technical Reports 

• Adli, Aria (2014). Syntactic Annotation Guidelines for Spanish and Catalan. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
• Adli, Aria (2013). Syntactic Annotation Guidelines for Persian. University of Freiburg.
• Adli, Aria (2011). Syntactic Annotation Guidelines for French. University of Freiburg. 
• Adli, Aria (2007). Transcription Guidelines for Persian. New York University. 
• Adli, Aria (2007). Transcription Guidelines for French, Spanish, and Catalan. New York University.

(ix) Invited Talks; Conference and workshop papers:

USA (University of Pennsylvania, Stanford University, NYU, Ohio State University, University of Chicago at Urbana-Champaign, University of Texas at San Antonio), Canada (U Ottawa, U Toronto, SFU Vancouver), Great Britain (Newcastle University, University of Edinburgh), Spain (Universitat de Barcelona, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, University of Bilbao), Germany (U Kiel, U Konstanz, U Hamburg, U Frankfurt Main, U Frankfurt Oder, U Bremen, U Tübingen, U Munich, U Freiburg, U Bonn, U Wuppertal, U Heidelberg, U Potsdam, ZAS Berlin, MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology Leipzig, HfMT Hamburg, U Erlangen, U Cologne, U Würzburg, U Flensburg, FU Berlin, U Leipzig, U Stuttgart, U Bielefeld), France (ENS Paris, U Strasbourg), Austria (U Vienna, U Graz), Switzerland (U Neuchâtel), Finland (University of Helsinki), Sweden (U Uppsala), Iran (U Teheran, Allameh Tabataba'i U Teheran, U Isfahan), Northern Ireland (U Belfast), Netherlands (VU Amsterdam, U Leiden), South Korea (Seoul National University)