Alexandra Lenz

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Alexandra Lenz is a Professor of German Linguistics at the University of Vienna's Department of German Studies. Her research focuses on Austrian German dialects, lexical variation, and sociolinguistic dynamics, particularly through digital methods and corpus-based approaches.

• Key Research Areas: Austrian German dialects, lexical variation, sociolinguistic perception, and digital humanities.
• Projects: Leading contributions to the Special Research Programme 'German in Austria (DiÖ): Variation–Contact–Perception' and LexAT21 lexicon atlas.
• Methodology: Specializes in corpus linguistics, syntactic variation analysis, and experimental elicitation techniques.
• Recent Trends: Articles from 2025–2020 explore lexical responses to crises (e.g., pandemic language), grammaticalization pathways, and dialect syntax through comparative and interdisciplinary frameworks.