Current Projects

Our current research focuses upon the following areas and topics:

• Structural nativization in Ghanaian English English: A real-time study (Brato)
• New perspectives on the acquistion of English as a first language: Investigating children's English in Singapore (Buschfeld)
• 'English in Namibia' or 'Namibian English'? (Buschfeld, Kautzsch, et al.)
• L2 phonological acquisition in German Learners of English (Kautzsch)
• Patterns of Conversational Interaction in Varieties of English (Neumaier)
• English stretching its boundaries: new contexts and lingua franca uses (Schneider)
• Englishes past and present as Complex Dynamic Systems (Schneider)
• Evolutionary processes in Postcolonial Englishes (Schneider)
• Language contact in the history and varieties of English (Schneider)
• Manifestations of cultural differences in World Englishes (Schneider)
• Processes of change in the history of English (Schneider)
• Varieties of American English, esp. in a diachronic perspective (Schneider)
• Earlier African American English (Schneider, Kautzsch)
• "You must excews my Bad writen". A linguistic analysis of early African American letters (COAAL; DFG project; Schneider, Siebers)
• Caribbean creoles: "Semi-creolization", literary attestations (Schneider et al.)
• Corpus-based feature studies of World Englishes (Schneider et al.)

Publications resulting from these projects are listed after the project descriptions and on the individual homepages.

Please note that this page is under construction. Descriptions and links will be added as soon as possible.