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)