Research projects & funding

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

(DFG BE 5812/3-1 & GR 5308/1-1, 01 October 2021–30 September 2024, 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)