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Nina Funke, M.A.

2026

  • Gries, S. Th. & N. Funke. "Here's When Non-Alternating Examples Can Be Included in Alternation Research: With the Right Predictive Modeling Approach." (Paper at the American Association for Corpus Linguistics conference, University of Florida, USA, 18 April 2026).
  • Gries, S. Th. & N. Funke. "Here's When Non-Alternating Examples Can Be Included in Alternation Research: With the Right Predictive Modeling Approach." (Paper at the 47th Annual Conference of the International Computer Archive for Modern and Medieval English (ICAME47), University of Koblenz, Germany, 27-30 May 2026).

2025

  • Funke, N. “A Structural Linguistic Epicentre? An Analysis of Adjective Comparison in South Asian Englishes.” (Paper at the 5th Nachwuchstagung für Englische Linguistik (NEL-5), University of Giessen, Germany, 20 March 2025).
  • Funke, N. “Identifying a Structural Linguistic Epicentre: An Analysis of Adjective Comparison in South Asian Englishes.” (Paper at the 46th Annual Conference of the International Computer Archive for Modern and Medieval English (ICAME46), University of Vilnius, Lithuania, 18-21 June 2025).
  • Schmidt, K. & N. Funke. “A Multifactorial Analysis of the Adjective Comparison Alternation in Anglophone South Asia.” (Paper at the 14th Bonn Applied English Linguistics Conference (BAELc14), University of Bonn, Germany, 11-12 July 2025).

2024

  • Funke, N. “A Methodological Approach to Structural Linguistic Epicentres.” (Paper at the 1st Nachwuchstagung Korpuslinguistik, University of Giessen, 12 July 2024).
  • Funke, N. & K. Schmidt. “A Multifactorial Analysis of Adjectives in Sri Lankan English.” (Paper at the 45th Annual Conference of the International Computer Archive for Modern and Medieval English (ICAME 45), Universidad de Vigo, Spain, 19-22 June 2024).
  • Schmidt, K. & N. Funke. “Approaching a Linguistic Epicentre of South Asia Diachronically.” (Invited Guest Lecture at Justus Liebig University Giessen, 31 January 2024).

2023

  • 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).

2022

  • 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. “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).

2021

  • 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 3rd Nachwuchstagung für Englische Linguistik (NEL-3), Online Conference, 22 February 2021).

2019

  • 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).