Sven Leuckert
List of John Benjamins publications for which Sven Leuckert plays a role.
2024 Chapter 8. Short-term diachronic and variety-internal approaches to textual functionality in South Asian Englishes: Evidence from newspaper language Crossing Boundaries through Corpora: Innovative corpus approaches within and beyond linguistics, Buschfeld, Sarah, Patricia Ronan, Theresa Neumaier, Andreas Weilinghoff and Lisa Westermayer (eds.), pp. 192–216 | Chapter
To empirically trace functional characteristics of texts such as speaker/writer involvement, narrativity or persuasiveness with a view to potential (a) intra-national variability in Indian English and (b) short-term diachronic change in South Asian Englishes, the South Asian Varieties of English… read more
2022 Review of Sadeghpour & Sharifian (2021): Cultural Linguistics and World Englishes English World-Wide 43:3, pp. 390–396 | Review
2020 Chapter 1. Towards a digital sociolinguistics: Communities of Practice on Reddit Corpus Approaches to Social Media, Rüdiger, Sofia and Daria Dayter (eds.), pp. 15–40 | Chapter
This paper investigates to what extent the ‘Community of Practice’ (CoP) concept can be applied to the subreddits r/leagueoflegends, r/linguistics, and r/rupaulsdragrace. Using qualitative and quantitative corpus-linguistic methods, the study analyses users’ self-understanding of the subreddits,… read more
2020 Non-canonical syntax in an Expanding Circle variety: Fronting in spoken Korean(ized) English English World-Wide 41:1, pp. 33–58 | Article
This paper analyzes fronting constructions in spoken Korean(ized) English. Non-canonical syntax is an important means of structuring discourse, but its use by speakers of Expanding Circle Englishes has so far received only insufficient attention in studies of World Englishes. Taking a… read more
2018 "This hair-style called as 'duck tail'": The 'intrusive as' -construction in South Asian varieties of English and Learner Englishes Rethinking Linguistic Creativity in Non-native Englishes, Deshors, Sandra C., Sandra Götz and Samantha Laporte (eds.), pp. 21–46 | Article
This paper focuses on the ‘intrusive as’-construction in complex-transitive verbcomplementation which was so far only attested for Indian English. Our datashow that ‘intrusive as’ is a common feature in South Asian Englishes generally, albeit to different degrees. Comparing the South Asian data… read more
2016 “This hair-style called as ‘duck tail’”: The ‘intrusive as ’-construction in South Asian varieties of English and Learner Englishes Linguistic Innovations: Rethinking linguistic creativity in non-native Englishes, Deshors, Sandra C., Sandra Götz and Samantha Laporte (eds.), pp. 151–176 | Article
This paper focuses on the ‘intrusive as’-construction in complex-transitive verb complementation which was so far only attested for Indian English. Our data show that ‘intrusive as’ is a common feature in South Asian Englishes generally, albeit to different degrees. Comparing the South Asian data… read more