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Elisabeth Verhoeven is Professor of General Linguistics at Humboldt University of Berlin, affiliated with the Institute of German Language and Linguistics within the Faculty of Humanities. She leads project A06 on 'Modeling register variation across languages' as part of the Collaborative Research Center 1412 (CRC 1412) 'Register: Language Users' Knowledge of Situational-Functional Variation'.
Her research focuses on typological language comparison and the study of less researched non-Indo-European languages, particularly Maya and Chibcha languages of Central America. Verhoeven employs experimental and corpus linguistic methods to trace cross-linguistic variation back to more abstract principles of language systems. She has made significant contributions to understanding register variation across different time periods, languages, modalities, and cultural contexts.
Her recent publications demonstrate a strong focus on register phenomena, syntactic complexity in oral registers, and the linguistic structures of Mayan languages. She has co-authored multiple publications in 2023-2024 as part of the CRC 1412 initiative, indicating her active research engagement. Her work bridges theoretical linguistics with empirical corpus studies and experimental approaches.
Verhoeven collaborates extensively with researchers across Europe, contributing to the development of the Lang*Reg corpus which contains data from German, Persian, Yucatec Maya, Kurdish, and Javanese, examining how the same speakers vary their language across different situations in terms of mode, acquaintance, professionalism, and expertise.
She has presented her work at various research colloquia and retreats related to the CRC 1412, focusing on cross-linguistic aspects of register variation. Her ORCID identifier is 0000-0001-8775-8567, and she can be contacted at Humboldt University's main campus at Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin.
