Research projects & funding
Corpus Linguistics & AI
(Fritz Thyssen Foundation, conference grant for the conference “Corpus Linguistics & AI”, 07–09 May 2026, Justus Liebig University Giessen, with Volker Emmrich (EUR 9,500))
Methods and Pilot Data for the Empirical Description of Forms and Usage of English in the Maldives
(DFG BE 5812/7-1, 01 June 2025–31 May 2026, grant for the initiation of an international collaboration with the Maldives National University (EUR 24,107.20))
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 13,366.49))
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 2022–30 September 2026, 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)