Dr. Sven Leuckert

Monographs, Textbooks, and Cambridge Elements

Leuckert, Sven, Claudia Lange, Tobias Bernaisch, & Asya Yurchenko (2023). Indian Englishes in the Twenty-First Century: Unity and Diversity in Lexicon and Morphosyntax. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Cambridge Elements in World Englishes) (link to the book)

Lange, Claudia & Sven Leuckert (2020). Corpus Linguistics for World Englishes: A Guide for Research. London: Routledge. (Routledge Corpus Linguistics Guides) (link to the book)

Leuckert, Sven (2019). Topicalization in Asian Englishes: Forms, Functions, and Frequencies of a Fronting Construction. London: Routledge. (Routledge Studies in World Englishes) (link to the book)


Edited Collections and Special Issues

Leuckert, Sven & Teresa Pham (eds.) (fc. 2025). Non-Canonical English Syntax: Concepts, Methods, and Approaches. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Studies in English Language)

Rüdiger, Sofia, Theresa Neumaier, Sven Leuckert, & Sarah Buschfeld (eds.) (fc. 2025). World Englishes in the 21st Century: New Perspectives and Challenges to the Dynamic Model. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. (New Directions in World Englishes Research) (link)

Buschfeld, Sarah & Sven Leuckert (eds.) (2021). Focus on Orality, Literacy - and the Digital? New Perspectives on Language of Immediacy and Language of Distance. Special Issue von Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies 32(2). (OA, link)

Leuckert, Sven & Sofia Rüdiger (eds.) (2021). Discourse Markers and World Englishes. Special Issue von World Englishes 40(4). (partially OA,  link)


Journal Articles

Leuckert, Sven (fc. 2025). “Good cheese and nutritious carbs: Evaluation and engagement features in mountaineering food blogs.” Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies 36(2).

Leuckert, Sven (fc. 2024). “‘Stop focusing on what the dictionary says!’ Metaperspectives on lexicographical resources of Mountaineering English on Reddit.” Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America 45(2).

Leuckert, Sven & Asya Yurchenko (fc. 2024). “‘Her language, herself’: The language of female protagonists in horror films.” Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies 35(3).

Leuckert, Sven (2024). “Lexicographical resources for mountaineers: A usage survey.” Lexicographica 40(1): 277-307. https://doi.org/10.1515/lex-2024-0012

Buschfeld, Sarah, Sven Leuckert, Claus Weihs, & Andreas Weilinghoff (2024). "How real is the quantitative turn? Investigating statistics as the new normal in linguistics." ICAME Journal 48(1): 1-22. https://doi.org/10.2478/icame-2024-0001 (OA)

Leuckert, Sven (2024). "Moving lexicographical mountains for the community: A comparison of print and online resources of Mountaineering English." International Journal of Lexicography 37(1): 29-49. https://doi.org/10.1093/ijl/ecad032

Leuckert, Sven, Theresa Neumaier, & Asya Yurchenko (2023). "English in Madeira: History and features of a lesser-known variety in the Atlantic." English Today 39(1): 2-11. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266078421000328 (OA)

Yurchenko, Asya, Sven Leuckert, & Claudia Lange (2021). “Comparing written Indian Englishes with the new Corpus of Regional Indian Newspaper Englishes (CORINNE).” ICAME Journal 45(1): 179-205. https://doi.org/10.2478/icame-2021-0006 (OA)

Leuckert, Sven & Sofia Rüdiger (2020). “Non-canonical syntax in an Expanding Circle variety: Fronting in spoken Korean(ized) English.” English World-Wide 41(1): 33-58. https://doi.org/10.1075/eww.00039.leu

Leuckert, Sven (2017). "How interactional needs shape information structure: An analysis of the discourse functions of topicalization in three L2 varieties of English." Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association 5(1): 25-42. https://doi.org/10.1515/gcla-2017-0003

Leuckert, Sven (2017). “Typological interference in information structure: The case of topicalization in Asia.“ Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 65(3): 283-302. https://doi.org/10.1515/zaa-2017-0029

Leuckert, Sven & Theresa Neumaier (2016). “Copula deletion in English as a Lingua Franca in Asia.” 10plus1Living Linguistics 2: 86-103. (OA, PDF)

Koch, Christopher, Claudia Lange, & Sven Leuckert (2016). ““This hair-style called as ‘duck tail’” – the ‘intrusive as’-construction in South Asian varieties of English and Learner Englishes.” International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 2(2): 151-176. https://doi.org/10.1075/ijlcr.2.2.02koc


Contributions to Edited Volumes

Leuckert, Sven (fc. 2025). “‘I’d say it’s a smart English accent’: A case study of language
attitudes on Reddit.” English Language Contacts and Change in the Digital Age. Eds. Heli Paulasto, Lea Meriläinen, Samuli Kaislaniemi, & Mikko Laitinen. Leiden: Brill. (Language and Computers: Studies in Digital Linguistics)

Bernaisch, Tobias & Sven Leuckert (2024). “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. Eds. Sarah Buschfeld, Patricia Ronan, Theresa Neumaier, Andreas Weilinghoff, & Lisa Westermayer. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 190-214. (Studies in Corpus Linguistics 119)  https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.119.08tob

Lange, Claudia & Sven Leuckert (2021). “Tag questions and gender in Indian English." Gender in World Englishes. Ed. Tobias Bernaisch. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 69-93. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108696739.004

Leuckert, Sven & Martin Leuckert (2020). "Towards a digital sociolinguistics: Communities of practice on Reddit." Corpus Approaches to Social Media. Eds. Daria Dayter & Sofia Rüdiger. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 15-40. (Studies in Corpus Linguistics 98) https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.98.01leu

Labade, Sachin, Claudia Lange, & Sven Leuckert (2020). “English in India: Global aspirations, local identities at the grassroots." Modelling World Englishes: A Joint Approach towards Postcolonial and Non-Postcolonial Varieties. Eds. Sarah Buschfeld & Alexander Kautzsch. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 85-111. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474445887-008

Leuckert, Sven (2020). “Rethinking community in linguistics: Language and community in the Digital Age.” Rethinking Community through Transdisciplinary Research. Ed. Bettina Jansen. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 111-125. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31073-8_7

Leuckert, Sven & Ashleigh D. Moeller (2020). “Identity through the looking glass: Voices of drag in past and present.” (Dis-)Harmony: Amplifying Voices in Polyphone Cultural Productions. Eds. Julia Andres, Brian Rozema, & Anne Schröder. Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 117-136. (Bielefelder Schriften zu Linguistik und Literaturwissenschaft 30) (link to the book)

Koch, Christopher, Claudia Lange, & Sven Leuckert (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. Eds. Samantha Laporte, Sandra C. Deshors & Sandra Götz. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 21-46. (Benjamins Current Topics 98) [reprint] https://doi.org/10.1075/bct.98.02koc

Leuckert, Sven (2018). “Adverbial subordination across variety types: A synchronic analysis of the syntax and semantics of since- and while-clauses in ENL, ESL, and EFL.” Subordination in English. Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives. Eds. Elena Seoane, Carlos Acuña-Fariña & Ignacio Palacios-Martínez. Berlin: de Gruyter, 235-262. (Topics in English Linguistics 101) https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110583571-011


Other Contributions

Pham, Teresa, Sven Leuckert, Gea Dreschler, Sandra Götz, Christine Günther, Kathrin Kircili, Claudia Lange, Louise Mycock, Theresa Neumaier, & Sofia Rüdiger (2024). "Defining non-canonicity: An integrated approach to modelling syntactic variation." OSF Preprints. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/92zhg (OA)

Leuckert, Sven & Sarah Buschfeld (2021). "Modelling spoken and written English: An introduction." Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies 32(2): 7-14. https://doi.org/10.33675/ANGL/2021/2/4 (OA)

Leuckert, Sven & Sofia Rüdiger (2021). "Discourse markers and world Englishes." World Englishes 40(4): 482-487. https://doi.org/10.1111/weng.12535 (OA)


Contributions to The Year's Work in English Studies (Oxford University Press)

Hansen, Beke & Sven Leuckert (2022). “New Englishes and Creolistics.” Part of “Chapter I: English Language.” The Year’s Work in English Studies 101: 74-97.

Hansen, Beke & Sven Leuckert (2021). “New Englishes and Creolistics.” Part of “Chapter I: English Language.” The Year’s Work in English Studies 100: 80-102.

Leuckert, Sven (2020). “New Englishes and Creolistics.” Part of “Chapter I: English Language.” The Year’s Work in English Studies 99: 114-124.

Leuckert, Sven (2019). “New Englishes and Creolistics.” Part of “Chapter I: English Language.” The Year's Work in English Studies 98: 96-110.

Kautzsch, Alexander & Sven Leuckert (2018). “New Englishes and Creolistics." Part of “Chapter I: English Language.” The Year's Work in English Studies 97: 121-134.


Reviews

Leuckert, Sven (2022). “Marzieh Sadeghpour and Farzad Sharifian, eds. 2021. Cultural Linguistics and World Englishes. (Cultural Linguistics) Singapore: Springer. xii + 399 pp. EUR 106.99. ISBN 78-981-15-4695-2 (hc). EUR 74.89. ISBN 978-981-15-4698-3 (sc).“ English World-Wide 43(3): 390-396. (link to journal)

Leuckert, Sven (2019). “Hoffmann, Sebastian, Andrea Sand, Sabine Arndt-Lappe & Lisa Marie Dillmann (eds.) (2018). Corpora and Lexis. Leiden: Brill. (Language and Computers 81)” ICAME Journal 43: 129-133. (link to journal)

Leuckert, Sven (2017). “Pietikäinen, Sari et al. (2016). Sociolinguistics from the Periphery.Small Languages in New Circumstances. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.” LinguistList. (link)

Leuckert, Sven (2016). “Edwards, Alison (2016). English in the Netherlands. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.” LinguistList. (link)

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