Arbeitsschwerpunkte
- Corpus Linguistics
- Syntax
- Intonation
- Linguistic Stylistics
- Applied Linguistics and Teaching English as a Foreign Language
- Indian English and Indian English Literature in the EFL Classroom
- English as a World/Second language and South Asian Varieties of English
- Ausbau der korpuslinguistischen Lern- und Arbeitsumgebung am Institut für Anglistik (funded by the University of Giessen 2006-2007)
- English verb complementation: corpus data and usage-based models
- The Louvain International Database of Spoken English Interlanguage (LINDSEI): analysing the German component
- Corpus linguistics and English language teaching
- The International Corpus of English - the Sri Lankan component (ICE Sri Lanka)