Conferences and Workshop

Bernaisch, T., S. Th. Gries, K. Schmidt & N. Funke. “A Linguistic Epicentre for South Asian Englishes?” (Vortragsreihe zur Korpuslinguistik am Fachbereich 05 der Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Germany, 01 June 2023)

Funke, N. “An Introduction to Social and Regional Varieties of English.” (Two Guest Lectures at Maldives National University, Malé, Maldives, 17 & 20 March 2023)

Funke, N. “Corpus Linguistics in World Englishes.” (Invited Talk at Rajarata University, Mihintale, Sri Lanka, 11 May 2023)

Funke, N. “Pragmatic Nativization in Sri Lankan English: Methodological Perspectives.” (Invited Talk at the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, 23 May 2023)

Funke, N. “Quantitative Research in Linguistics.” (Two Guest Lectures at Kathmandu University, Nepal, 17 April 2023)

Schmidt, K & N. Funke. “A Diachronic Exploration of the Subjunctive Alternation in Pakistani English.” (Paper at the 25th Conference of the International Association for World Englishes (IAWE 25), Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA, 15-17 June 2023)

Bernaisch, T., S. Th. Gries, N. Funke & K. Schmidt. “Empirical Short-Term Diachronic studies on a Linguistic Epicentre of South Asian Englishes.” (Paper at South Asian Languages Analysis 36 (SALA36) / Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Nepal 43 (LSN43), Madan Bhandari Memorial College, Kathmandu, Nepal, 26-29 November 2022).

Funke, N. “The Dative Alternation in Pre- and Post-Handover Hong Kong: Towards Endonormative Stabilization or Restriction.” (Paper at the 43rd Annual Conference of the International Computer Archive for Modern and Medieval English (ICAME43), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK, 27-30 July 2022)

Funke, N., K. Schmidt, T. Bernaisch & S. Th. Gries. “Linguistic Epicentres in South Asian Englishes: The State of the Debate and What Lies Ahead.” (Invited 1-hour Workshop at the South Asian Languages Analysis 36 (SALA36) / Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Nepal 43 (LSN43), Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal, 26-29 November 2022).

Bernaisch, T., N. Funke. “Intensifiers and Downtoners in South Asian Englishes: Corpus-based Perspectives on Indian and Sri Lankan English.” (Paper at the 42nd Annual Conference of the International Computer Archive for Modern and Medieval English (ICAME42), TU Dortmund, Germany, 18-21 August 2021).

Funke, N. “An Analysis of Thanking Strategies in South Asian Englishes.” (Paper at the 3^rd Nachwuchstagung für Englische Linguistik (NEL-3), Online Conference, 22 February 2021).

Gries, S. Th., B. Heller & N. Funke. “The Role of Gender in Postcolonial Syntactic Choice-Making: Evidence from the Genitive Alternation in British and Sri Lankan English (Paper at Corpus Linguistics 2019, Cardiff University, Wales, 23-27 July 2019).