Dr. Sven Leuckert

Education
Research Interests
Publications
Academic Activities
Conference Talks
Poster Presentations

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Dr. Sven Leuckert

Teaching and research

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Chair of English Linguistics

Chair of English Linguistics

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Education

• 2013-2017: PhD studies, TU Dresden
• 2011-2013: M.A. European Languages, TU Dresden
• 2007-2011: B.Ed. Teaching Degree (English/German), TU Dresden

Research Interests

• World Englishes

  • South and Southeast Asian Englishes; English in Madeira; English as a Lingua Franca

• Applied and Media Linguistics

  • lexicology and lexicography of Mountaineering English; language and horror in film and literature; corpus linguistics

• Sociolinguistics

  • Communities (of Practice) on Reddit; multilingualism; language contact; language typology

• Morphology and Syntax

  • non-canonical syntax; syntactic change; word-formation

Publications

A full list of Sven Leuckerts publications can be accessed at a separate page, following this link.

Academic Activities

Membership in Editorial Boards:

• since 2022: book series New Directions in World Englishes Research (Edinburgh University Press) (link to book series)
• since 2019: ICAME Journal (link to journal)

Peer Review for Journals:

• Asian Englishes; Atlantis: Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies; Chinese Journal of Applied Linguistics; Cognitive Linguistics; English Today; English World-Wide; Frontiers in Communication (Language Sciences); Frontiers in Psychology (Language Sciences); Heliyon; Journal of English Linguistics; Language and Cognition; Language Resources and Evaluation; Language Sciences; Lingua; Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads; Linguistics Vanguard; Nordic Journal of Language Teaching and Learning; Pragmatics; Pragmatics and Society; Research in Corpus Linguistics; Studia Neophilologica; Theory and Society; World Englishes

Conference Talks

2024, Vigo. "Ready for the sufferfest: A corpus-based study of –fest in the specialised register of mountaineers." ICAME45. June 2024. Universidade de Vigo.

2024, Vigo. "‘Bad’ Indian English: The lexicology of multilingual swearing" (with Claudia Lange). ICAME45. June 2024. Universidade de Vigo.

2024, Dresden. "Bundók and campinger: Global variation in mountaineering lexicography." Seismic Shifts: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mountaineering. March 2024. TU Dresden.

2024, Wittenberg. "Fachlexikographie am Rande der Professionalisierung: Eine Fallstudie zu 'Mountaineering English'." Wissenschaftssprache, Fachlexikographie, Fachdokumentation – Meeting of the research group "Historische Gelehrten- und Wissenschaftssprachen (HiGeWiS)". March 2024. Lutherstadt Wittenberg.

2023, Dresden. "Xenomorphing gender roles: A corpus-linguistic analysis of gendered language use in Alien and Aliens." Disruptive Imaginations. Joint Conference of the Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA) and the German Association for Research in the Fantastic (GfF). August 2023. TU Dresden.

2023, Düsseldorf. "'I used to really think that uhm languages did have to be simple': Grammaticalisation of habitual aspect in World Englishes" (with Jakob Neels und Arne Lohmann; presented by Jakob Neels). August 2023. ICLC16. HHU Düsseldorf.

2023, Sheffield. "Investigating grammaticalisation via synchronic variation: The development of habitual [used to V] in World Englishes" (with Jakob Neels und Arne Lohmann; presented by Sven Leuckert). July 2023. ICEHL-22. The University of Sheffield.

2023, Brisbane (digital). "Grammaticalisation of habitual aspect in World Englishes: Assessing trajectories, areal patterns and rates of change with synchronic corpora" (with Jakob Neels und Arne Lohmann; presented by Jakob Neels). June 2023. ISLE7. The University of Queensland.

2022, Ljubljana. "English in Madeira or English in Portugal? – A corpus-based study of lexical and morphosyntactic variation" (with Theresa Neumaier and Asya Yurchenko). September 2022. 9th BICLCE. University of Ljubljana.

2022, Ljubljana. "'Asian accent is awesome' – Valuing Englishes on YouTube" (with Sofia Rüdiger). September 2022. 9th BICLCE. University of Ljubljana.

2022, Mainz. "'Her language, her body, herself': The linguistic construction of women in horror films" (with Asya Yurchenko). September 2022. Anglistentag 2022. Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz.

2022, Cambridge. “'How 'real' is the quantitative turn? Investigating statistics as the 'new normal' in Corpus Linguistics'“ (with Sarah Buschfeld, Andreas Weilinghoff and Claus Weihs; presented by Sarah Buschfeld and Claus Weihs). July 2022. ICAME43. Anglia Ruskin University.

2022, Tokyo (digital). “'Science has no business in the mountains': Stance-taking and expert knowledge on r/Mountaineering.“ July 2022. Digital Humanities 2022. The University of Tokyo.

2021, Dortmund. “The plurality of Indian English(es): Syntactic variation in the Corpus of Regional Indian Newspaper English (CORINNE)“ (with Asya Yurchenko and Claudia Lange). August 2021. ICAME42. TU Dortmund University.

2021, Bonn (digital). "English in Madeira: A lesser-known variety – at the grassroots?" (with Theresa Neumaier and Asya Yurchenko). June 2020. BAELc10. Universität Bonn.

2021, Joensuu (digital). “Less is more? – Zero number marking in Asian and European ELF” (with Theresa Neumaier). June 2020. ISLE6. University of Eastern Finland.

2021, Joensuu (digital). “Asian Englishes on YouTube” (with Sofia Rüdiger). June 2020. ISLE 6. University of Eastern Finland.

2019, Neuchâtel. “Linguistic creativity on the ‘front page of the internet’: Studying lexical and semantic innovations using Reddit as a corpus.” June 2019. ICAME40. Université de Neuchâtel.

2019, Neuchâtel. “Tracing the origin of ‘intrusive as’ in spoken Indian English” (with Claudia Lange). June 2019. ICAME40. Université de Neuchâtel.

2018, London. “‘Lots of alcohol they have’: Features of dislocation in spoken Korean(ized) English” (with Sofia Rüdiger). July 2018. ISLE5. University College London.

2017, Dresden. “Feature omission in ELF interaction” (with Theresa Neumaier). September 2017. NoCaSynE - International Symposium "New Perspectives on Non-Canonical Syntax in English". Technische Universität Dresden.

2017, Dresden. “Non-canonical syntax in spoken Korean(ized) English” (with Sofia Rüdiger). September 2017. NoCaSynE - International Symposium "New Perspectives on Non-Canonical Syntax in English". Technische Universität Dresden.

2017, Prague. “Indian English tag questions revisited: the role of gender and style in social interaction” (with Claudia Lange). May 2017. ICAME38. Charles University.

2016, Hamburg. “Topicalization in Asian Englishes – a transfer feature? A comparison of word-order typologies.” September 2016. Anglistentag 2016. University of Hamburg.

2015, Tübingen. “‘Immediately they say it’s not possible’: Topikalisierungsstrategien im asiatischen Englisch.” Oktober 2015. 7. Sprachwissenschaftliche Tagung für Promotionsstudierende (STaPs). Eberhard Karls University Tübingen.

2015, Trier. ““This hair-style called as ‘duck tail’” – Tracing the ‘intrusive as’-construction in South Asian varieties of English and Learner Englishes” (with Christopher Koch and Claudia Lange; presented by Christopher Koch). May 2015. ICAME36. University of Trier.

2014, Noida. “This hair-style called as ‘duck tail’” – the origins of the ‘intrusive as’-construction in South Asian Englishes” (with Christopher Koch and Claudia Lange). Dezember 2014. IAWE20. Amity University Noida.

2014, Dresden. “Non-finiteness in language contact: A corpus-based study of Asian Englishes.” July 2014. 4. Korpuslinguistik- und Digital Humanities-Tag. Technische Universität Dresden.

2014, Freiburg i. Br. “Topicalization in Asian Englishes.” July 2014. Frequency Effects in Language Contact: Asian Englishes. Workshop at Albert-Ludwig-University Freiburg.

Poster Presentations

2016, Poznań. “Zero copula in spoken Asian ELF” (with Theresa Neumaier). 18-21 September 2016. 4th conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE-4). Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań.

2015, Dresden. “ELAS: E-Learning in der Anglistischen Sprachwissenschaft“ (with Christopher Koch). 25 February 2015. 1. E-Teaching-Day. Dresden University of Technology.