Sven Leuckert

List of John Benjamins publications for which Sven Leuckert plays a role.

Articles

Leuckert, Sven and Martin Leuckert 2020 Chapter 1. Towards a digital sociolinguistics: Communities of Practice on RedditCorpus 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
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
Koch, Christopher, Claudia Lange and Sven Leuckert 2018 "This hair-style called as 'duck tail'": The 'intrusive as' -construction in South Asian varieties of English and Learner EnglishesRethinking 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
Koch, Christopher, Claudia Lange and Sven Leuckert 2016 “This hair-style called as ‘duck tail’”: The ‘intrusive as’-construction in South Asian varieties of English and Learner EnglishesLinguistic 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