Eliane Lorenz, M.A.

Research Associate
Linguistics
Address
University of Hamburg
Faculty of Humanities
Department of Language, Literature, and Media II
Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
Von-Melle-Park 6, Postfach #23
20146 Hamburg
Office hours
She has been at the University Trondheim, Norway, from October 2019 to June 2022. Since June 2021, she is at the University of Gießen. https://www.uni-giessen.de/en/faculties/f05/engl/ling/staff/assistants/elorenz/index
Academic career
from October 2019 onwards | at the University of Trondheim: https://www.ntnu.edu/employees/eliane.lorenz |
April 2016 - September 2019 | Academic assistant/doctorate student with Prof. Dr. Peter Siemund Professor of Linguistics, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Hamburg |
2013-2015 | M.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena |
2013 | DGfS Summer school „Sprachentwicklung: Evolution, Wandel, Erwerb“ in Berlin |
2012-2016 | student and academic assistant at the Institut für Anglistik/Amerikanistik, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena |
2011-2012 | ERASMUS studies at the Universidad de Jaén, Spain |
2009-2013 | B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik, Pedagogy, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena |
Academic representation
2014-2016 | Student representative in the Master Committee at the Institut für Anglistik/Amerikanistik, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena |
2014-2016 | Mentor for foreign Master students, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena |
2011-2016 | Member of the students' union of Anglistik/Amerikanistik, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena |
Research
Diachronic Linguistics
Typology
Corpus Linguistics
Language Acquisition
Contrastive Linguistics
Usage-based Grammar
Multilingualism
Teaching
SoSe 2019 | Learner Corpus Research |
WiSe 2018/19 | Second and Third Language Acquisition |
SoSe 2018 | Introduction to Corpus Linguistics, Universität Hamburg |
WiSe 2017/18 | Multilingual Development, Universität Hamburg |
Summer term 2017 | Tense & Aspect: Contrast, Variation and Typology, Universität Hamburg |
Winter term 2016/ 17 | English-German Contrasts, Universität Hamburg |
Summer term 2016 | English Pronouns: Grammar, Variation, and Change, Universität Hamburg |
Summer term 2012 | Tutorial: “Introduction to Literary Studies II”, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena |
Summer term 2011 | Tutorial: “Introduction to Literary Studies II”, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena |
Scholarships
2018 DAAD Congress travel grant (IAM Conference Lissabon)
2017 DAAD travel grant (SLE Meeting in Zurich)
2017 Research grant of the Übersee-Club e.V. Hamburg
2014-2015 Deutschlandstipendiatin, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
2011-2012 Erasmus studies in Spain
Publications
- Lorenz, E. & Siemund, P. (forthc.). The Acquisition of English as an Additional Language by Multilingual Heritage Speakers. In: Die Auswirkungen der Migration auf Sprach- und Kulturräume. The Impact of Migration on Language Culture Areas, U. Hoinkes & M. Meyer (eds). Kiel: Kieler Forschungen zur Sprachwissenschaft.
- Lorenz, E. & Siemund, P. (2019). Differences in the acquisition and production of English as a foreign language. A study based on bilingual and monolingual students. In: Current International Research on Multilingualism. Concepts and Contact Phenomena, E. Vetter & U. Jessner (eds). Dordrecht: Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
- Lorenz, E. (2019c). Analysis of verb phrases and the progressive aspect in a learner corpus of L2 and L3 learners of English. In Widening the Scope of Learner Corpus Research. Selected Papers from the 4th Learner Corpus Research Conference 2017, A. Abel, A. Glaznieks, V. Lyding & L. Nicholas (eds). Louvain le Neuve: Presses Universitaires de Louvain.
- Lorenz, E. (2019b). Book review: Torres Cacoullos, R. & Travis, C.E. 2018. Bilingualism in the Community. Code-switching and Grammars in Contact. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Journal of Language Contact 12(2): 527–535.
- Lorenz, E. (2019a). The use of tense and aspect in the additional language English by monolingual speakers and bilingual heritage speakers. PhD Dissertation. University of Hamburg. Submitted: 27 March 2019.
- Lorenz, E. (2018). "One day a father and his son going fishing on the Lake." - A study on the use of the progressive aspect of monolingual and bilingual learners of English. In: Andreas Bonnet & Peter Siemund (eds.). Foreign Languages in Multilingual Classrooms. Hamburg Studies on Linguisitic Diversity. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
- Lorenz, E., Bonnie, R.J., Feindt, K., Rahbari, S. & Siemund, P. (2018). Cross-linguistic influence in unbalanced bilingual heritage speakers on subsequent language acquisition: evidence from pronominal object placement in ditransitive clauses. International Journal of Bilingualism, Published Online 13 August 2018. Doi: 10.1177/1367006918791296.
- Rahbari, S., Gabriel, C., Krause, M., Siemund, P., Bonnie, R.J., Dittmers (née Pron), T., Feindt, K., Lorenz, E., Topal, S. (2018). Die linguistische Vertiefungsstudie des Projekts Mehrsprachigkeitsentwicklung im Zeitverlauf (MEZ). Hamburg: Universität Hamburg, 210 S. - (MEZ Arbeitspapiere; 2) - URN: urn:nbn:de:0111-pedocs-155694.
- Dünkel, N., Heimler, J., Brandt, H., Gogolin, I. (eds.). (2018). Mehrsprachigkeitsentwicklung im Zeitverlauf. Ausgewählte Daten und Ergebnisse. Authors: Bonnie, R.J., Brandt, H., Dünkel, N., Feindt, K., Gabriel, C., Gogolin, I., Klinger, T., Krause, M., Lagemann, M., Lorenz, E., Rahbari, S., Schnoor, B., Siemund, P., Usanova, I. Hamburg (University of Hamburg), Mimeo.
Memberships in Linguistic Associations
- Deutscher Anglistenverband
- LCA Learner Corpus Association
- IAM International Association of Multilingualism
- ISLE International Society for the Linguistics of English
- SLE Societas Linguistica Europaea