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Research projects & funding

IAWE26: World Englishes through Space and Time

(DFG BE 5812/5-1, conference grant for the 26th conference of the International Association for World Englishes (IAWE26), 24–26 July 2025, Justus Liebig University Giessen (EUR 24,400))

 

Grammatikalische Nativisierung im gesprochenen sri-lankischen Englisch

[= Grammatical nativisation in spoken Sri Lankan English]

(Forschungscampus Mittelhessen Flexi Funds, 01 July 2021–31 December 2022, principal investigator with

Sandra Götz (EUR 25,506))

 

Epicentres in World Englishes: empirical diachronic studies of present-day South Asian Englishes

(DFG BE 5812/3-1 & GR 5308/1-1, 01 March 2022–28 February 2025, principal investigator with Stefan Th. Gries (EUR 382,200))

 

Linguistic epicenters: empirical perspectives on World Englishes

(DAAD PPP, 01 January 2018–31 December 2019, principal investigator with

Sandra Götz and Joybrato Mukherjee (EUR 15,754))

 

Pragmatic nativisation in spoken Sri Lankan English: a corpus-based study

(DFG BE 5812/2-1, 01 March 2017–30 April 2020, principal investigator (EUR 113,220))

For more information, please visit the project homepage on the DFG’s GEPRIS website.

 

Verb complementation in South Asian Englishes: a study of ditransitive verbs in web-derived corpora

(DFG MU 1683/3–1, 01 February 2008–31 August 2011, involved as student assistant and research assistant)

 

The International Corpus of English – the Sri Lankan component (ICE-Sri Lanka)

(01 April 2006–07 March 2019, involved as student assistant and research assistant)