Current Projects

In addition to our ongoing editing work (EWW and VEAW),
our current research focuses upon the following areas and topics:

• Evolutionary processes in Postcolonial Englishes (Schneider)
• "You must excews my Bad writen". A linguistic analysis of early African American letters (COAAL; DFG project; Schneider, Siebers)
• Earlier African American English (Schneider, Kautzsch)
• Varieties of American English, esp. in a diachronic perspective (Schneider)
• Caribbean creoles: "Semi-creolization", literary attestations (Schneider et al.)
• Corpus-based feature studies of World Englishes (Schneider et al.)
• Iconicity vs. Economy in New Englishes (Steger)
• Theoretical models of language change and the history of English (Schneider et al.)
• L2 phonological acquisition in German Learners of English (Kautzsch)

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.