Inka Wissner

Inka Wissner is a Lecturer in the DEFLET department at the University of Franche-Comté, France, affiliated with the research pole on Didactics and Education. Her work is centered in the CLA (Centre de Langues et d'Apprentissages) and she holds a CNU section 7° affiliation. She is actively involved in research and academic service, leading pedagogical initiatives and contributing to international scholarly discourse in variational linguistics and lexicography.

Her research interests are deeply interdisciplinary, focusing on variational linguistics, sociolinguistics, lexicography, and literary discourse analysis. She investigates diatopic (regional) variation in French across the Francophone world, from the Vendée in France to Quebec, the Caribbean, and the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Her work combines corpus linguistics, fieldwork methodology, and statistical analysis to study prepositional adverbials, regional vocabulary (e.g., viticulture), and the representation of regionalisms in literature. She is a key contributor to projects on the historical development of Romance languages, particularly the 'Third Way' of prepositional adverbials.

The trends in her recent publications reveal a sustained and evolving focus on methodological rigor in linguistic field research, especially for understudied phenomena in Romance languages. Her work bridges historical linguistics, descriptive grammar, and sociocultural analysis, with a strong emphasis on data collection, statistical processing of small samples, and the development of standardized tools for pan-Romance studies. Her research consistently addresses the pragmatic and sociolinguistic functions of language variation.

• Expert reviewer for journals such as Studia linguistica romanica, Corela, and Expanding Romance Linguistics.
• Member and organizer of scientific committees for international colloquia on linguistic policies, linguistic innovations, and complexity in multilingual contexts.

Dr. Wissner has held significant pedagogical responsibilities, serving as the Program Director for the undergraduate program since 2020 and the Pedagogical Director for the first year of the Master's program since 2019. Her research is supported by her expertise in field methodology and data analysis, contributing to major collaborative projects like 'The Second Way' and 'La Troisième Voie'. She has not received any scientific awards listed in the provided text.

She is a member of the ELLIADD research team and the 'Contexte, Langages Didactiques' research pole at the University of Franche-Comté. She also collaborates internationally, notably with the University of Graz, Austria, on projects concerning prepositional adverbials in Romance languages.