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Prof. Mair is a member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Vienna).

Monographs

  • Geschichtsverständnis und Textstruktur im sozialkritischen amerikanischen Roman der dreißiger Jahre: John Dos Passos, James T. Farrell, Josephine Herbst – Eine literaturwissenschaftlich-linguistische Studie. Anglistische Forschungen 184. Heidel­berg: Winter, 1985.
  • Infinitival Complement Clauses in English: A Study of Syntax in Discourse. Studies in English 1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
  • English in the World Today: A Survey of Varieties of English around the World. Iaşi: Ars Nova, 1995.
  • Englisch für Anglisten: Eine Einführung in die englische Sprache. Tübingen: Stauffenburg, 1995.
  • Einführung in die anglistische Sprachwissenschaft. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1997.
  • [with Ernst Leisi] Das heutige Englisch: Wesenszüge und Probleme. 8., völlig neu bearbeitete Auflage. Heidelberg: Winter, 1999; 9. Aufl. 2008.
  • Twentieth-Century English: History, Variation and Standardization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
  • Bachelor-Wissen: English Linguistics. Tübingen: Narr, 2008; 2. Aufl. 2012.
  • [with Geoffrey Leech, Marianne Hundt & Nicholas Smith] Change in Contemporary English: A Grammatical Study. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 

Edited Collections

  • [with Manfred Markus] New Departures in Contrastive Linguistics / Neue Ansätze in der kontrastiven Linguistik: Proceedings of the Conference Held at the Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck, Austria, 10-12 May 1991. 2 Bde. Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Kulturwissenschaft. Anglistische Reihe 4/5. Innsbruck: Verlag des Instituts für Sprachwissenschaft, 1992.
  • [with Marianne Hundt] Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory: Papers from the 20th International Conference on English Language Research on Computerized Corpora (ICAME 20), Freiburg im Breisgau 1999. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2000.
  • The Politics of English as a World Language: New Horizons in Postcolonial Cultural Studies. ASNEL Papers 7. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2003.
  • [with Hans Lindquist] Corpus Approaches to Grammaticalization in English. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2004.
  • [with Reinhard Heuberger] Corpora and the History of English: Festschrift for Manfred Markus on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday. Heidelberg: Winter, 2006.
  • [with Jürg R. Schwyter & Didier Maillat] Broadcast English Past, Present and Future, Sondernummer / Special issue AAA – Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 33.2 (2008).
  • [with Barbara Korte] Linguistics and Cultural Studies, Sondernummer / Special Issue – Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik (ZAA) 58.3 (2010).
  • [with Marek Konopka, Jacqueline Kubczak, František Štícha & Ulrich H. Waßner] Grammar & Corpora / Grammatik und Korpora 2009: Third International Conference / Dritte Internationale Konferenz, Mannheim, 22.-24.9.2009. Tübingen: Narr, 2011.
  • [with Véronique Lacoste] Authenticity in Creole-Speaking Contexts, Sondernummer / Special Issue – Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik (ZAA) 60.3 (2012).
  • English Linguistics in Germany: Trends and Developments 1960-2014, Sondernummer / Special Issue – Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik (ZAA) 62.3 (2014).
  • [with Susanne Mühleisen & Ulrike Pirker] Selling the Caribbean: Questions of Value in a Globalized Culture, Sondernummer / Special Issue – Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik (ZAA) 63.2 (2015).
  • [with Silvia Bernardini] Investigating Englishes with Corpora, Sondernummer / Special issue – Textus: English Studies in Italy 32, 1 (2019).

 

Contributions to Peer-Reviewed Journals

  •  "Die Gruppe for + NP + to-infinitive als Problem der englisch-deutschen kontrastiven Grammatik." AAA – Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 9 (1984): 51-61.
  • "The 'New Stylistics' – A Success Story or the Story of Successful Self-Deception?" Style 19 (1985): 117-33; gekürzt und überarbeitet in Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik (ZAA) 34 (1986): 5-16.
  • "Instabile Infinitivkonstruktionen im heutigen Englisch." Linguistische Berichte: Heft 111 (1987): 381-97.
  • "For-To-Infinitival Clauses in Contemporary British English: A Study Based on the Material Collected in the Survey of English Usage (University College London)." English Studies 68 (1987): 545-59.
  • "Tough-Movement in Present-Day British English – A Corpus-Based Study." Studia Linguistica 41 (1987): 59-71.
  • "Ways of Expressing Potential Modality in English and German Subject Clauses." International Review of Applied Linguistics 26 (1988): 217-28.
  • "'His students fell asleep on him.' – Ein analytischer freier Dativ im heutigen Englisch?" Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik (ZAA) 36 (1988): 133-43.
  • "Extraposed Gerundial Subject Clauses in Present-Day British English – An Investigation of the Corpus of the Survey of English Usage (University College London)." AAA – Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 13 (1988): 51-63.
  • "In Defence of the fact that – A Corpus-Based Study of Current British Usage." Journal of English Linguistics 21 (1988): 59-71.
  • "Naipaul's Miguel Street and Selvon's Lonely Londoners – Two Approaches to the Use of Caribbean Creole in Fiction." Journal of Commonwealth Literature 24 (1989): 138-54
  • "Naipaul's Miguel Street and Selvon's Lonely Londoners – Two Approaches to the Use of Caribbean Creole in Fiction." Geoffrey Davis & Hena Maes-Jelinek, eds. Crisis and Creativity in the New Literatures in English. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1990. 133-49.
  • "A Contrastive Analysis of Object Control in English and German." Papers and Studies in Contrastive Linguistics 25 (1990): 85-101.
  • "Literary Sociolinguistics – A Methodological Framework for Research on the Use of Nonstandard Language in Fiction." AAA – Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 17 (1992): 103-23.
  • "A Crosslinguistic Functional Constraint on Believe-Type Raising in English and Selected Other European Languages." Papers and Studies in Contrastive Linguistics 28 (1993): 5-19.
  • "Crosslinguistic Semantic Motivation for the Use of a Grammatical Construction in English and German: X is impossible to do / X ist unmöglich zu schaffen." Papers and Studies in Contrastive Linguistics 29 (1994): 5-15.
  • [with Marianne Hundt] "Why is the Progressive Becoming More Frequent in English? A Corpus-Based Investigation of Language Change in Progress." Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik (ZAA) 43 (1995): 111-22; Kurzfassung in Wolfgang Riehle & Hugo Keiper, eds. Anglistentag 1994 Graz: Proceedings. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1995. 247-54.
  • [with Marianne Hundt] "'Agile' and 'Uptight' Genres: The Corpus-Based Approach to Language Change in Progress." International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 4 (1999): 221-42.
    • Nachdruck / Reprinted in Douglas Biber & Randi Reppen, eds. Corpus Linguistics [Sage Benchmarks in Language and Linguistics], vol. 3: Varieties. Los Angeles: Sage, 2012. 199-216.
  • "'A Negro Epic in America' oder ein Versepos für die postkoloniale Welt? Zu Derek Walcott's Omeros." Literaturwissenschaftliches Jahrbuch 40 (1999): 305-30.
  • "Early or Late Origin for Begin + V-ing? Using the OED on CD-ROM to Settle a Dispute between Visser and Jespersen." Anglia 119 (2001): 606-11.
  • "Creolisms in an Emerging Standard: Written English in Jamaica." English World-Wide 23 (2002): 31-58.
  • "Three Changing Patterns of Verb Complementation in Late Modern English: A Real-Time Study Based on Matching Text Corpora." English Language and Linguistics 6 (2002): 105-31.
    • Nachdrucke / Reprinted in Wolfgang Teubert & Ramesh Krishnamurthy, eds. Critical Concepts in Linguistics – Corpus Linguistics. Vol. V. London: Routledge, 2007. 386-415; Douglas Biber & Randi Reppen, eds. Corpus Linguistics [Sage Benchmarks in Language and Linguistics], vol. 2: Grammar. Los Angeles: Sage, 2012. 179-206.
  • [with Mariane Hundt, Geoffrey Leech & Nicholas Smith] "Short-Term Diachronic Shifts in Part-of-Speech Frequencies: A Comparison of the Tagged LOB and F-LOB Corpora." International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 7 (2002): 245-64.
  • "'Acts of Identity' – Interaction-Based Sociolinguistics and Cultural Studies: An Introduction." AAA – Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 28 (2003): 195-99.
  • "Language, Code, and Symbol: The Changing Roles of Jamaican Creole in Diaspora Communities." AAA – Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 28 (2003): 231-48.
  • "British English / American English Grammar: Convergence in Writing – Divergence in Speech?" Anglia 125 (2007): 84-100.
  • [with Barbara Korte] "Introduction: Linguistics and Cultural Studies." Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik (ZAA) 58 (2010): 195-201.
  • [with Véronique Lacoste] "Authenticity in Creole-Speaking Contexts: An Introduction." Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik (ZAA) 60 (2012): 211-15.
  • [with Véronique Lacoste]. "A Vernacular on the Move: Towards a Sociolinguistics of Mobility for Jamaican Creole." Special Issue on "Construction des connaissances sociolinguistiques, vol. 1: variation et contexte social." Cahiers de Linguistique 38.1 (2012): 87-110.
  • "The World System of Englishes: Accounting for the Transnational Importance of Mobile and Mediated Vernaculars." English World-Wide 34 (2013): 253-78
  • "50 Years of English Linguistics in Germany: An Introduction." Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik (ZAA) 62 (2014): 187-88.
  • "Response to Davies and Fuchs [Expanding Horizons in the Study of World Englishes with the 1.9 Billion Global Web-based Corpus (GloWbE)]." English World-Wide 36 (2015): 29-33.
  • [with Susanne Mühleisen & Ulrike Pirker] "Selling the Caribbean: An Introduction." Selling the Caribbean: Questions of Value in a Globalized Culture, Sondernummer / Special Issue – Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik (ZAA) 63.2 (2015).

     

  • [with Silvia Bernardini] "Investigating Englishes with Corpora: An Introduction." Investigating Englishes with Corpora, Sondernummer / Special issue – Textus: English Studies in Italy 32, 1 (2019): 7-18.

  • "Brexitiness: The Ebbs and Flows of British Eurosceptic Rhetoric since 1945." Open Library of Humanities 5(1) (2019): 50, 1-26. https://doi.org/10.16995/olh.424

  • [with Barbara Korte] "New-Old Rifts: Brexit and Resurfacing Racism in the United Kingdom." Journal for the Study of British Cultures 26 (2019): 73-86.

  • [with Barbara Korte], "Brainfucked about Britain: Sibylle Berg's Transnational Novel GRM." Open Library of Humanities 7(1): (2021), 2: 1-16. https://doi.org/10.16995/olh.617

  • "Nigerian English in Germany." World Englishes AOP (2020): https://doi.org/10.1111/weng.12526

 

Contributions to Edited Volumes

  • "The Transition from the Impersonal to the Personal Use of the Verb Like in Late Middle English and Early Modern English – Some Previously Neglected Determinants of Variation." Manfred Markus, ed. Historical English: On the Occasion of Karl Brunner's 100th Birthday. Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Kulturwissenschaft. Anglistische Reihe 1. Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachwissenschaft, 1988. 210-18.
  • "Austrian University Students and English Nonfinite Complement Clauses: Elicitation Tests as a Means of Measuring the Performance and Judgment of Advanced Learners." Bernhard Kettemann, ed. Englisch als Zweitsprache. Tübingen: Narr, 1989. 103-22.
  • "Funktional-kommunikative Begründung syntaktischer Regularitäten – eine Untersuchung am Beispiel ausgewählter komplexer Satzstrukturen in einigen europäischen Sprachen." Klagenfurter Beiträge zur Linguistik 15/16 (1989/1990): 250-65.
  • "Presuppositions in English and German Subject Clauses – A Contrastive Analysis." Jacek Fisiak, ed. Further Insights into Contrastive Linguistics. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1990. 527-37.
  • "Quantitative or Qualitative Corpus Analysis? Infinitival Complement Clauses in the SEU Corpus." Stig Johansson & Anna-Brita Stenström, eds. English Computer Corpora: Selected Papers and Research Guide. Berlin / New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1991. 67-80.
  • "'Raising' in English and German: Formal Explanation, Functional Explanation, or No Explanation at All?" Christian Mair & Manfred Markus, eds. New Departures in Contrastive Linguistics. Bd. 1. Innsbruck: Verlag des Instituts für Sprachwissenschaft, 1992. 167-76.
  • "Language Maintenance and Shift among Immigrants to the US, and an Exploratory Study of Some Literary Reflections of Immigrant Bilingualism." Walter Hölbling & Reinhard Wagnleitner, eds. The European Emigrant Experience in the United States: Proceedings of the 15th Annual Meeting of the Austrian Association for American Studies. Tübingen: Narr, 1992. 235-51.
  • "Problems in the Compilation of a Corpus of Standard Caribbean English." Gerhard Leitner, ed. New Directions in English Language Corpora. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1992. 75-96.
  • "Beyond the Cult of Statistics and Precision: Comments on Wallace Chafe's 'The Importance of Corpus Linguistics to Understanding the Nature of Language'." Jan Svartvik, ed. Directions in Corpus Linguistics: Proceedings of the Nobel Symposium on Corpus Linguistics. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1992. 98-103.
  • "The New Englishes as a Basis for Stylistic Innovation in the New English Literatures – Ken Saro-Wiwa's Sozaboy: A Novel in Rotten English." Gordon Collier, ed. Us / Them: Translation, Transcription and Identity in Post-Colonial Literary Cultures. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1992. 277-87.
  • "Can Caliban Be Made to Speak German? On Some Problems Arising in the Translation of African Writing in English, with Special Reference to Wole Soyinka's The Road." Alwin Fill et al., eds. New-Found-Lands: Festschrift für Harro Heinz Kühnelt zum 70. Geburtstag. Tübingen: Narr, 1993. 219-29.
  • "Is See Becoming a Conjunction? The Study of Grammaticalisation as a Meeting Ground for Corpus Linguistics and Grammatical Theory." Udo Fries, Gunnel Tottie & Peter Schneider, eds. Creating and Using English Language Corpora. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1994. 127-37.
  • "Formen der Lehre und ihre Effizienz." Reingard M. Nischik, ed. Forum Anglistentag 1993: Probleme der anglistischen / amerikanistischen Lehre. Eichstätt 1994. 31-35.
  • "Changing Patterns of Complementation, and Concomitant Grammaticalisation, of the Verb Help in Present-Day British English." Bas Aarts & Charles F. Meyer, eds. The Verb in Contemorary English: Theory and Description. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. 258-72.
  • "L'inglese nel mondo." Carla Sassi. L'inglese. Firenze: La Nuova Italia, 1995. 223-52, 302-27.
  • "Machine-Readable Text Corpora and the Linguistic Description of Languages." Cornelia Zuell, Janet Harkness & Jürgen Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik, eds. Text Analysis and Computers. ZUMA Nachrichten Spezial. Mannheim: Zentrum für Umfragen, Methoden und Analysen, 1996. 65-76.
  • "The Semantics of Silence." Gudrun Grabher & Ulrike Jeßner, eds. Semantics of Silences in Linguistics and Literature. Heidelberg: Winter, 1996. 19-28.
  • "The Treasures of Whose Tongue? The Language Issue in Caribbean Fiction." Eckhard Breitinger, ed. Defining New Idioms and Alternative Forms of Expression. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1996. 237-44.
  • "Dramatic Dialogue between Linguists and Literary Scholars? Some Remarks on Harold Pinter's 'Political' Plays." Ursula Schaefer & Thomas Kühn, eds. Dialogische Strukturen: Festschrift für Willi Erzgräber zum 70. Geburtstag. Tübingen: Narr, 1996. 290-307.
  • "The Spread of the Going-to-Future in Written English: A Corpus-Based Investigation into Language Change in Progress." Raymond Hickey & Stanisław Puppel, eds. Language History and Linguistic Modelling: A Festschrift for Jacek Fisiak. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1997. 1537-43.
  • "On the Advantages of not Being a Native Speaker ... The Continental Tradition in English Studies." Udo Fries, Viviane Müller & Peter Schneider, eds. From Ælfric to the New York Times: Studies in English Corpus Linguistics. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1997. 249-56.
  • "Parallel Corpora: A Real-Time Approach to the Study of Language Change in Progress." Magnus Ljung, ed. Corpus-Based Studies in English. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1997. 195-209.
    • Nachdruck / Reprinted in Wolfgang Teubert & Ramesh Krishnamurthy, eds. Critical Concepts in Linguistics – Corpus Linguistics. Vol. II. London: Routledge, 2007. 77-90.
  • "Neue Medien in den Philologien am Beispiel des Fachs Anglistik." Bärbel Schubel & Wilfried Sühl-Strohmenger, eds. Elektronische Dienste für Studium und Wissenschaft. Expressum: Informationen aus dem Freiburger Bibliothekssystem, Sonderausgabe 1998. 63-68.
  • [with Andrea Sand], "Caribbean English: Structure and Status of an Emerging Variety." Raimund Borgmeier, Helmut Grabes & Andreas Jucker, eds. Anglistentag 1997 Gießen: Proceedings. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 1998. 187-98.
  • "Man / Woman which ... – Last of the Old, or First of the New?" Antoinette Renouf, ed. Explorations in Corpus Linguistics: Proceedings of the 18th ICAME Conference. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1998. 123-33.
  • "Corpora and the Study of the Major Varieties of English: Issues and Results." Hans Lindquist et al., eds. The Major Varieties of English: Papers from MAVEN 97, Växjö 20-22 November 1997. Växjö: Växjö University, 1998. 139-57.
  • "Genetic Engineering, Biotechnology, the Life Sciences ... – Language at the Sharp Edge of Scientific Progress." Gudrun Grabher & Sonja Bahn-Coblans, eds. The Self at Risk in English Literature and Other Landscapes: Honoring Brigitte Scheer-Schäzler on the Occasion of her 60th Birthday. Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachwissenschaft der Universität, 1999. 309-18.
  • [with Walter Bruno Berg] "Kreol! Sprachliche und kulturelle Grenzgänge in Argentinien und in der Karibik." Monika Fludernik & Hans-Joachim Gehrke, eds. Grenzgänger zwischen Kulturen. Identitäten und Alteritäten 1. Würzburg: Ergon, 1999. 447-60.
  • "Un-American Activities in British English Syntax: Prevent, Stop, Save." Uwe Carls & Peter Lucko, eds. Form, Function and Variation in English: Studies in Honour of Klaus Hansen. Frankfurt, etc.: Lang, 1999. 175-81.
  • "Is there a Future for the Humanities, and is it Digital?" Wolfgang Zach, ed. English Studies: Past – Present – Future. Hamburg: Kovač, 2002. 144-52.
  • "The Hidden Surplus Value of Corpora in Continental English Departments." Bernhard Kettemann & Georg Marko, eds. Teaching and Learning by Doing Corpus Analysis: Papers from the Fourth International Conference on Teaching and Language Corpora, Graz 19-24 July 2000. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2002. 119-30.
  • "The Continuing Spread of English: Anglo-American Conspiracy or Global Grassroots Movement?" David Allerton et al., eds. Perspectives on English as a World Language. Basel: Schwabe, 2002. 159-69.
  • "Tagged Corpora as a New Resource in the Study of Linguistic Change in Progress: Nominal and Verbal Styles in English." Andreas Fischer, Gunnel Tottie & Hans Martin Lehmann, eds. Text Types and Corpora: Studies in Honour of Udo Fries. Tübingen: Narr, 2002. 177-89.
  • "Linguistics, Literature and the Postcolonial Englishes: An Introduction." Christian Mair, ed. The Politics of English as a World Language: New Horizons in Postcolonial Cultural Studies. ASNEL Papers 7. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2003. ix-xxi.
  • "Gerundial Complements after Begin and Start: Grammatical and Sociolinguistic Factors, and how they Work against each other." Günter Rohdenburg & Britta Mondorf, eds. Determinants of Syntactic Variation in English. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2003. 329-45.
  • "Thomas Egan, Distance and Direction: A Usage-Based Study of Infinitive and –Ing Complement Clauses in English – Dr.art.-disputas ved Universitet i Oslo, 1. mars 2003." Norsk Lingvistisk Tidsskrift 21 (2003): 237-46.
  • "Kreolismen und verbales Identitätsmanagement im geschriebenen jamaikanischen Englisch." Elisabeth Vogel et al., eds. Zwischen Ausgrenzung und Hybridisierung: Zur Konstruktion von Identitäten aus kulturwissenschaftlicher Perspektive. Identitäten und Alteritäten 14. Würzburg: Ergon, 2003. 79-96.
  • "Corpus Linguistics and Grammaticalisation Theory: Beyond Statistics and Frequency?" Christian Mair & Hans Lindquist, eds. Corpus Approaches to Grammaticalisation in English. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2004. 121-50.
  • [with Sabine Ehrhart & Peter Mühlhäusler] "Language Planning in the Pacific: Endangered English-Based Creoloids on Norfolk and Palmerston Islands." LAUD [Linguistic Agency of the University of Duisburg-Essen] Series A: General and Theoretical Papers 614 (2004).
  • "Recent Advances in Contrastive Linguistics and Language Typology: The Spin-Off for Language Teachers." David J. Allerton, Cornelia Tschichold & Judith Wieser, eds. Linguistics, Language Teaching and Language Learning. Basel: Schwabe, 2005. 21-39.
  • "Tracking Ongoing Grammatical Change and Recent Diversification in Present-Day Standard English: The Complementary Role of Small and Large Corpora." Johannes Schwitalla & Werner Wegstein, eds. Korpuslinguistisk deutsch: synchron, diachron, kontrastiv. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2005. 9-26.
    • [überarb. Nachdruck in Antoinette Renouf & Andrew Kehoe, eds. The Changing Face of Corpus Linguistics: Papers from the 24th International Conference on English Language Research on Computerized Corpora (ICAME 24). Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006. 355-76.
  • "Corpus Linguistics, Grammar and Theory – Contribution to a Panel Discussion." Antoinette Renouf & Andrew Kehoe, eds. The Changing Face of Corpus Linguistics: Papers from the 24th International Conference on English Language Research on Computerized Corpora (ICAME 24). Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006. 395-98.
  • [with Geoffrey Leech] "Current Changes." Bas Aarts & April McMahon, eds. The Handbook of English Linguistics. Oxford: Blackwell, 2006. 318-42.
  • "Outsourcing < 'Outside Resource Using'? A German Folk Etymology for an English Neologism." Alwin Fill, Georg Marko, David Newby & Hermine Penz, eds. Linguists (don't) only Talk about it: Essays in Honour of Bernhard Kettemann. Tübingen: Stauffenburg, 2006. 105-15.
  • "Inflected Genitives are Spreading in Present-Day English, but not Necessarily to Inanimate Nouns." Christian Mair & Reinhard Heuberger, eds. Corpora and the History of English: Festschrift for Manfred Markus on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday. Heidelberg: Winter, 2006. 243-56.
  • [with Sabine Ehrhart & Peter Mühlhäusler] "Pidgins and Creoles between Endangerment and Empowerment: A Dynamic View of Empowerment in the Growth and the Decline of Contact Languages, Especially in the Pacific." Martin Pütz, Joshua A. Fishman & JoAnne Neff-van Aertselaer, eds. 'Along the Routes to Power': Explorations of Empowerment through Language. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2006. 129-55.
  • "Change and Variation in Present-Day English: Integrating the Analysis of Closed Corpora and Web-Based Monitoring." Marianne Hundt, Nadja Nesselhauf & Carolin Biewer, eds. Corpus Linguistics and the Web. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006. 233-47.
  • "The 19th Century as a Critical Period in the Formation of the Modern English System of Nonfinite Complement Clauses: The Case of Remember." Merja Kytö & Erik Smitterberg, eds. Nineteenth-Century English: Stability and Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 215-28.
  • "Varieties of English around the World: Collocational and Cultural Profiles." Paul Skandera, ed. Phraseology and Culture in English. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2007. 437-68.
  • "Kult des Informellen – auch in der Wissenschaftssprache? Zu neueren Entwicklungen des englischen Wissenschaftsstils." Peter Auer & Harald Baßler, eds. Reden und Schreiben in der Wissenschaft. Frankfurt/M.: Campus, 2007. 157-83.
  • [with Sandra Mollin] "Getting at the Standards behind the Standard Ideology: What Corpora can Tell us about Linguistic Norms." Sabine Volk-Birke & Julia Lippert, eds. Anglistentag 2006 Halle: Proceedings. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2007. 341-53.
  • "English in North America and the Caribbean." Christopher F. Laferl & Bernhard Pöll, eds. Amerika und die Norm. Literatursprache zwischen Tradition und Innovation. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2007. 3-23.
  • "Ongoing Changes in Present-Day English Grammar: Corpus-based Perspectives." František Šticha & Mirjam Fried, eds. Grammar & Corpora / Gramatika a Korpus. Prag: Academia, 2008. 15-50.
  • "Cult of the Informal? On Some Ongoing Changes in Scientific English." Claus Gnutzmann & Frauke Intemann, eds. English in Academia: Catalyst or Barrier? Tübingen: Narr, 2008. 91-106.
  • "Corpus Linguistics Meets Sociolinguistics: Studying Educated Spoken Usage in Jamaica on the Basis of the International Corpus of English (ICE)." Lucia Siebers & Thomas Hoffmann, eds. World Englishes: Problems, Properties, Prospects. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2009. 39-60.
    • [In veränderter und erweiterter Fassung auch als "Corpus Linguistics Meets Sociolinguistics: The Role of Corpus Evidence in the Study of Sociolinguistic Variation and Change." Antoinette Renouf & Andrew Kehoe, eds. Corpus Linguistics: Refinements and ReassessmentsProceedings of the 2007 ICAME Conference – Stratford-upon-Avon. Amsterdam: Rodopi. 1-26]
  • "Corpora and the Study of Recent Change." Anke Lüdeling & Merja Kytö, eds. Corpus Linguistics [HSK – Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft / Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science]. Vol. 2. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2009. 1109-25.
  • "Infinitival and Gerundial Complements." Peter Collins & Pam Peters, eds. Australian and New Zealand English: Grammar. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2009. 263-76.
  • "Ernst Leisi [biographischer Eintrag]." Harro Stammerjohann & Ludwig M. Eichinger, eds. Lexicon Grammaticorum. Bd. 2: L-Z. 2. Aufl. Tübingen: Niemeyer.
  • "The Consequences of Migration and Colonialism I: Pidgins and Creoles." Peter Auer & Jürgen E. Schmidt, eds. Language and Space [HSK – Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft / Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science]. Vol. 1: Theories and Methods. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2010. 440-51.
  • "Grammaticalisation of New Patterns of Clausal Subordination: 'On (the) Basis (that) + Finite Clause' and '(On) Account (of) + Finite Clause' in Present-Day English." Markéta Malá & Pavlina Šaldová, eds. … For thy Speech Bewrayeth thee: A Festschrift for Libuše Dušková. Prag: Charles University / Philosophical Faculty, 2010. 153-68.
  • [with Marek Konopka, Jacqueline Kubczak, František Štícha & Ulrich H. Waßner] "Preface / Vorwort." Marek Konopka, Jacqueline Kubczak, Christian Mair, František Štícha & Ulrich H. Waßner, eds. Grammar & Corpora / Grammatik und Korpora 2009: Third International Conference / Dritte Internationale Konferenz, Mannheim, 22.- 24.9.2009. Tübingen: Narr, 2011. 9-20.
  • "Corpora and the New Englishes: Using the 'Corpus of Cyber-Jamaican' (CCJ) to Explore Research Perspectives for the Future." Fanny Meunier, Sylvie De Cock, Gaëtanelle Gilquin & Magalie Paquot, eds. A Taste for Corpora: In honour of Sylviane Granger. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2011. 209-36.
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  • [with Stefan Pfänder] "Vernacular and Multilingual Writing in Mediated Spaces: Web Forums for Post-Colonial Communities of Practice." Peter Auer, Martin Hilpert, Anja Stukenbrock & Benedikt Szmrecsanyi, eds. Space in Language and Linguistics: Geographical, Interactional, and Cognitive Perspectives. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2013. 529-56.
  • "Using 'Small' Corpora of Written and Spoken English to Document Ongoing Grammatical Change: The Case of Specificational Clefts in 20th Century English." Manfred Krug & Julia Schlüter, eds. Research Methods in Language Variation and Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. 181-94.
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  • "Globalisation and the Transnational Impact of Non-Standard Varieties." Eugene Green and Charles F. Meyer, eds. The Variability of Current World Englishes. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2014. 65-96.
  • "Does Money Talk, and do Languages have Price Tags? Economic Perspectives on English as a Global Language." Sarah Buschfeld, Thomas Hoffmann, Magnus Huber & Alexander Kautzsch, eds. The Evolution of Englishes: The Dynamic Model and beyond. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2014. 249-66.
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  • "Cross-Variety Diachronic Drifts and Ephemeral Regional Contrasts: An Analysis of Modality in the Extended Brown Family of Corpora and what it can Tell us about the New Englishes." Peter Collins, ed. Grammatical Change in English World-Wide. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2015. 119-46.
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  • "Beyond and between the Three Circles: World Englishes Research in the Age of Globalisation." Elena Seoane & Cristina Suárez-Gómez, eds. World Englishes: New Theoretical and Methodological Considerations. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2016. 17-36.
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Reviews

    • Klaus Poenicke. Der Amerikanische Naturalismus: Crane, Norris, Dreiser. Darmstadt: WB, 1982. AAA – Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 8 (1983): 214-16.
    • Eberhard Klein. Semantic and Pragmatic Indeterminacy in English Non-Finite Verb Complementation. Tübingen: Narr, 1982. AAA – Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 8 (1983): 222-23.
    • Hartwig Isernhagen. Ästhetische Innovation und Kulturkritik: Das Frühwerk von John Dos Passos 1916-1938. München: Fink, 1983. AAA – Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 10 (1985): 299-301.
    • John A. Hawkins. A Comparative Typology of English and German – Unifying the Contrasts. London: Croom Helm, 1985. AAA – Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 11 (1986): 241-43.
    • Eric Kellermann & Michael Sharwood Smith, eds. Crosslinguistic Influence in Second Language Acquisition. Oxford: Pergamon, 1986. EFL-Gazette, November 1986, 14.
    • Bill Van Patten, Trisha L. Dvorak & James Lee, eds. Foreign Language Learning: A Research Perspective. New York: Newbury House, 1987. EFL-Gazette, November 1987, 14.
    • [gemeinsam mit Johannes Mair] Eric Glendinning & Beverly Holmström. English in Medicine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. EFL-Gazette. November 1987, 14.
    • Hans-Werner Ludwig & Werner Faulstich. Erzählperspektive empirisch: Untersuchungen zur Rezeptionsrelevanz narrativer Strukturen. Tübingen: Narr, 1985. In Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift 37 (1987): 333-335.
    • Peter Newmark. A Textbook of Translation. Englewood Cliffs NJ: Prentice Hall, 1988. EFL-Gazette, September 1988, 18.
    • John McH. Sinclair et al., eds. The Collins COBUILD English Language Dictionary. AAA – Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 13 (1988): 195-97.
    • Pieter Muysken & Norval Smith, eds. Substrata versus Universals in Creole Genesis. Creole Language Librabry 1. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1986. Matatu: Zeitschrift für afrikanische Kultur und Gesellschaft 3.2 (1989): 126-8.
    • Gerald L. Cohen. Syntactic Blends in English Parole. Bern etc.: Lang, 1987. AAA – Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 14 (1989): 190-1.
    • Joyce Penfield & Jacob L. Ornstein-Galicia. Chicano English: An Ethnic Contact Dialect. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1985. AAA – Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 14 (1989): 191-2.
    • Jean D'Costa & Barbara Lalla, eds. Voices of Exile: Jamaican Texts of the 18th and 19th Centuries. Tuscaloosa AL: University of Alabama Press, 1989. Matatu: Zeitschrift für afrikanische Kultur und Gesellschaft 7 (1990): 163-9.
    • Guy Bailey, et al., eds. The Emergence of Black English. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1991. EFL-Gazette, May 1992, 17.
    • Jan Svartvik, ed. The London-Lund Corpus of Spoken English: Description and Research. Lund: Lund University Press, 1990. CCE Newsletter 5 (1991): 70-2.
    • John Victor Singler, ed. Pidgin and Creole Tense-Mood-Aspect Systems. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1990. Malatu: Zeitschrift für afrikanische Kultur und Gesellschaft 9 (1992): 246-8.
    • Ekkehard König, et al. Adverbien und Partikeln: Ein deutsch-englisches Wörterbuch. Heidelberg: Groos, 1990. AAA – Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 16 (1991): 251-2.
    • Flip G. Droste & John E. Joseph, eds. Linguistic Theory and Grammatical Description. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1991. AAA – Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 17 (1992): 317-8.
    • Andreas Jucker. Social Stylistics: Syntactic Variation in British Newspapers. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1992. AAA – Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 18 (1993): 146-7.
    • Karin Aijmer & Bengt Altenberg, eds. English Corpus Linguistics: Studies in Honour of Jan Svartvik. London: Longman, 1991. AAA – Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 18 (1993): 147-8.
    • Manfred Görlach. Englishes: Studies in Varieties of English 1984-1988. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1991. Anglia 111 (1993): 151-3.
    • Joan Hughes, ed. Australian Words and their Origins. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. Anglia 111 (1993): 489-91.
    • Bas Aarts. Small Clauses in English: The Nonverbal Types. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1992. Anglia 113 (1995): 84-7.
    • Edith Mettke, ed. Tensions Between North and South: Studies in Modern Commonwealth Literature and Culture. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 1990. Literaturwissenschaftliches Jahrbuch 35 (1994): 445-8.
    • Norman Fairclough. Critical Discourse Analysis: The Critical Analysis of Language. London: Longman, 1995. Language 73 (1997): 189.
    • Susan B. Armstrong, ed. Using Large Corpora. Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 1994. Language 73 (1997): 904.
    • Patrick J. Duffley. The English Infinitive. London: Longman, 1992. Journal of English Linguistics 25 (1997): 169-70.
    • Richard Allsopp. Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. AAA – Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 22 (1997): 141-3.
    • Juhani Rudanko. Prepostions and Complement Clauses: A Syntactic and Semantic Study of Verbs Governing Prepositions and Complement Clauses in Present-Day English. Albany: SUNY Press, 1996. English Language and Linguistics 1 (1997): 169-70.
    • Stefanie Jannedy, Robert Poletto & Tracy L. Weldon, eds. Language Files: Materials for an Introduction to Language and Linguistics. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1994. AAA – Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 23 (1998): 129-30.
    • Manfred Görlach. Even More Englishes: Studies 1996-97. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1998. English World-Wide 20 (1999): 339-41.
    • Ronald S. Macaulay. Standard and Variation in Urban Speech. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1997. AAA – Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 23 (1998): 297-8.
    • Peter Stummer & Christopher Balme, eds. Fusion of Cultures. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1996. AAA – Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 23 (1998): 298-300.
    • Peter L. Patrick. Urban Jamaican Creole. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1999. AAA – Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 25 (2000): 245-7.
    • Kaoru Horie, ed. Complementation: Cognitive and Functional Perspectives. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2000. AAA – Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 26 (2001): 213-5.
    • Rodney Huddleston & Geoffrey K. Pullum. The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. AAA – Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 28 (2003): 175-82.
    • Wolfgang Viereck, Karin Viereck & Heinrich Ramisch. dtv-Atlas englische Sprache. München: dtv, 2002. Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik (ZAA) 51 (2003): 197-9.
    • Henning Andersen, ed. Actualization: Linguistic Change in Progress. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2001. Anglia 121 (2003): 464-5.
    • Sonja Kleinke. Englische Komplementstrukturen: Schematische und prototypische Bedeutungen. Frankfurt: Lang, 2002. AAA – Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 28 (2003): 374-6.
    • Manfred Görlach. A Textual History of Scots. Heidelberg: Winter, 2002. Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik (ZAA) 51 (2003): 452.
    • Wolfgang Obst & Florian Schleburg. Lehrbuch des Altenglischen. Heidelberg: Winter, 2004; Peter S. Baker. Introduction to Old English. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004. AAA – Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 30 (2005): 264-7.
    • Bernd Kortmann & Edgar Schneider, eds. Handbook of Varieties of English. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2004. Journal of English Linguistics 33 (2005): 381-9.
    • Marion Gymnich, Metasprachliche Reflexionen und sprachliche Gestaltungsmittel im englischsprachigen postkolonialen und interkulturellen Roman. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2007. Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik (ZAA) 56 (2008): 413-5.
    • Peter Trudgill & Jean Hannah. International English: A Guide to Varieties of Standard English. 5th ed., London: HodderEducation, 2008. Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik (ZAA) 57 (2009): 314-7.
    • Daniel Schreier. St. Helenian English: Origins, Evolution and Variation. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2008. Diachronica 27 (2010): 166-9.
    • Mikko Laitinen. Agreement Patterns in English: Diachronic Corpus Studies on Common-Number Pronouns. Helsinki: Société Néophilologique, 2007. Folia Linguistica Historica 43 (2009): 499-502.
    • "Book Review Essay: The Post-colonial Politics of English." Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies 17 (2011): 190-203
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    • John McWhorter. The Creole Debate. Cambridge: CUP, 2018. In English World-Wide 40 (2019): 349-355
    • Chege Githiora. Sheng: Rise of a Kenyan Swahili Vernacular. Woodbridge, Surrey: James Currey, 2018. In Postcolonial Text 16 (2021): https://www.postcolonial.org/index.php/pct/article/view/2685/2489