Additional functions

Executive Director of the Department of Romance Studies
October 2025 – September 2026

Head of the Sociolinguistic Lab
Meister-Ekkehart-Straße 11
50937 Cologne
Germany

Recent Publications

• Lehmann, Nico, Mortezapour, Vahid, Sameri, Motahareh, Verhoeven, Elisabeth, Adli, Aria. 2025. Right-peripheral subjects in German and Persian across registers. Folia Linguistica 59(2): 391–419.
• Lehmann, Nico, Mortezapour, Vahid, Vander Klok, Jozina, Farokhnejad, Zahra, Müller, David, Verhoeven, Elisabeth, Adli, Aria (2025). Lang*Reg corpus: Documenting intra-speaker variation across languages and registers. Language Documentation & Conservation 19: 40–66.
• Adli, Aria, Verhoeven, Elisabeth, Lehmann, Nico, Mortezapour, Vahid, Vander Klok, Jozina (2024). Lang*Reg: A multi-lingual corpus of intra-speaker variation across situations (0.2.0). [Data set].
• Lüdeling, Anke, Szucsich, Luka, Zeige, Lars Erik, Adli, Aria, … Wiese, Heike (2024). Register: Language Users’ Knowledge of Situational-Functional Variation. Register Aspects of Language in Situation 3(1): 1–53.
• 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].
• 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 & Guy, Gregory R. (2022). Globalizing the study of language variation and change: a manifesto on cross-cultural sociolinguistics. Language and Linguistics Compass.
• 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

More publications are available on ORCiD.

Ongoing projects

• A06 Modeling register variation across languages at the CRC 1412: Register
  01/2024 – 12/2027