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Last updated on 16 août 2025
Published on November 12, 2020 – Updated on August 16, 2025

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

 
Research activities

Recent publications

Structural borrowing (2023), in M. Aronoff (ed.-in-chief), Oxford Bibliographies in Linguistics, New York, Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/obo/9780199772810-0302

Blending (2023), in P. Ackema, S. Bendjaballah, E. Bonet & A. Fábregas (eds), The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Morphology, Volume 1, 251-270, Hoboken, Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119693604.morphcom009

Bagasheva, Alexandra, Akiko Nagano & Vincent Renner (eds) (2024), Competition in Word-formation (Linguistik Aktuell series, Vol. 284), Amsterdam, Benjamins. https://benjamins.com/catalog/la.284

Nagano, Akiko, Alexandra Bagasheva & Vincent Renner (2024), Towards a competition-based word-formation theory: Core research questions and major hypotheses, in A. Bagasheva, A. Nagano & V. Renner (eds), Competition in Word-formation, 1-31, Amsterdam, Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/la.284.01nag

Lalić-Krstin, Gordana, Nadežda Silaški & Vincent Renner (2025), Language creativity, in C. Leung & J. Lewkowicz (eds), The Routledge Companion to English Studies, 2nd edition, 95-106, Abingdon, Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003221265-9
 
PhD supervision

Current doctoral student

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
  • Applied lexicology, French/English contrastive word-formation, Grammaticalization and language change, Research methods in linguistics, Enunciative linguistics
Academic qualifications
  • 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