Last updated on 21 nov. 2023
Published on November 12, 2020 – Updated on November 21, 2023
Professor of English linguistics
vincent.renner@univ-lyon2.fr
Director of the Institute for Advanced Study of the University of Lyon -- Collegium of Lyon
Areas of interest: lexicology, morphology, word-formation, contact linguistics (lexical and structural borrowing), French/English contrastive linguistics
Personal pages: HAL, Academia, Google Scholar
Director of the Institute for Advanced Study of the University of Lyon -- Collegium of Lyon
Areas of interest: lexicology, morphology, word-formation, contact linguistics (lexical and structural borrowing), French/English contrastive linguistics
Personal pages: HAL, Academia, Google Scholar
- Research activities
Recent and upcoming publications
Structural borrowing (2023), in M. Aronoff (ed.-in-chief), Oxford Bibliographies in Linguistics, New York, Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/obo/9780199772810-0302
Blending (2023), in P. Ackema, S. Bendjaballah, E. Bonet & A. Fábregas (eds), The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Morphology, Hoboken (NJ), Wiley. doi:10.1002/9781119693604.morphcom009
Lalić-Krstin, Gordana, Nadežda Silaški & Vincent Renner, Language creativity, in C. Leung & J. Lewkowicz (eds), The Routledge Companion to English Studies, 2nd edition, Abingdon, Routledge.
Alexandra Bagasheva, Akiko Nagano & Vincent Renner (eds), Competition in Word-formation (Linguistik Aktuell series), Amsterdam, Benjamins.
Recent conference talks
The morphologization of English zilla, from blend fragment to augmentative suffix, 56th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE). University of Athens, August 2023.
[invited talk] Is the skyaker the limit? Reflections on the new frontiers of lexical blending. What's in a blend? — Workshop on blend formation, analysis and processing. Federal University of Paraíba, June 2023.
[with Adam Renwick] On the emergence of uninflectedness: The case of incipient verbal inflection dropping in present-day French, Workshop on uninflectedness, 45th Annual Meeting of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS). University of Cologne, March 2023.
[invited talk] Affixization and deaffixization in Late Modern English: Reflections from two case studies. Sixth Linguistics and Data Science in Collaboration Conference. University of Tsukuba, January 2023.
Isms and ologies : étude exploratoire de la nominalisation par déliaison. Nominalisations (a)typiques Conference. University of Rennes, November 2022.- PhD supervision
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Current doctoral students
since 2018: Chloé Debouzie, Competition between affixation and conversion in Present-Day English denominal verbs (with Akiko Nagano, from the University of Shizuoka)
since 2019: Sophie Kraeber, Le commentaire e-sportif : caractérisation d'un genre discursif contraint ; étude multidimensionnelle sur corpus oral bilingue anglais-français (with Sylvie Hanote, from the University of Poitiers)
since 2023: Agnese Pignataro, La dénomination des produits alternatifs à la viande et au fromage en français et en italien (with Jana Altmanova, from the University of Naples L'Orientale) - Teaching
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- French/English contrastive word-formation, English phonology, Grammaticalization and language change, Research methods in linguistics
- Academic qualifications
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- 1998: Agrégation in English
- 2006: PhD in linguistics from Université Lumière Lyon 2, Coordinate compounds in Present-Day English (committee: Pierre Arnaud, Nicolas Ballier, Laurie Bauer, Henri Béjoint, Claude Boisson, Michel Paillard)
- 2014: Habilitation in linguistics from Université Paris Diderot, English word-formation through the lens of contrastive linguistics (committee: Nicolas Ballier, Pierre Arnaud, Laurie Bauer, John Humbley, François Maniez, Elke Ronneberger-Sibold)
- since 2015: Professor of English linguistics, School of Modern Languages, Université Lumière Lyon 2
