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Theses supervised
- A corpus-stylistic analysis of Gothic fiction (MA 2025)
- A variationist analysis of the mandative subjunctive in the Old Bailey Corpus (MA 2025)
- The use of Nigerian Pidgin in the music of contemporary Afrobeats artists (Zula Gymn. 2024/25
- Rhetoric, deixis, and modality in the 2024 U.S. Presidential campaign debates (Zula Gymn. 2024/25)
- Native Canadian English (BA 2024)
- Jamaican Creole in literature: Code-switching in Marlon James’ A Brief History of Seven Killings (MA 2024)
- German Accents in English: Accent Dynamics of German-Speaking Singers in English-Language Pop Music Based on an Analysis of Lena Meyer-Landrut (BA 2024)
- Genitive variation in spoken 19th-century English (Zula Gymn. 2023/24)
- A typological analysis of tense-aspect in English-lexifier creoles (MA 2024)
- English Gerunds and their translations into German (Zula Gymn. 2023)
- Genitive variation in spoken 18th-century English (MA 2023)
- English in Indonesia: Indonesian-English code-switching (MA 2023)
- Translating creole into German (MA 2023)
- English-Chinese code switching in film (BA 2023)
- Indonesian English (MA 2023)
- English and Creole in Translation (MA 2023)
- African American Vernacular English and its role in the world of rap and hip hop (Zula Gymn. 2022/23)
- The Role of Language in the Reid Technique: A Comparative Study of Police Communication Strategies in the Interview and Interrogation Stages and their Impact on Suspect Responses and Confessions (Zula Gymn. 2022/23)
- Building identity through TH-stopping in UK grime music (Zula Gymn. 2022)
- The linguistic landscape of Hawai’i Creole English (MA 2022)
- An analysis of English emergency calls: Linguistic indicators for deceptive language (MA 2022)
- A sociolinguistic analysis of China English (MA 2022)
- Linguistic creativity among Mandarin Chinese speakers of English (MA 2022)
- Philadelphia English (BA 2022)
- Giving ‘Ordinary People’ a Voice: Dialect Authenticity in the Television Series Derry Girls (BA 2022)
- Grammaticalization in Tok Pisin (MA 2021/22)
- Mood and modality in Bahamian Creole English (MA 2021/22)
- The evolution of Indian English (BA 2021/22)
- The Coventry dialect: A folklinguistic study focusing on dialect perception and language attitudes (BA 2021)
- Singaporean Englishes as identity markers (BA 2021)
- Rhoticity in Singapore English (MA 2021)
- Multimodality, Interdiscursivity and Intertextuality in Political Discourse: Hamilton: An American Musical and the Presidential Election 2020 (Zula Gymn. 2021)
- Language acquisition patterns and code switching (BA 2021)
- English and creole in computer-mediated communication in Barbados (MA 2020/21)
- Caribbean English in letters: A linguistic analysis of a historical correspondence corpus from Panama (MA 2020)
- Morphosyntactic variation in educated Bahamian English: The use of zero copula in university classroom lessons (MA 2020)
- Code-switching in Hawai’i Creole English (BA 2020)
- Morphosyntactic processes in German-English code-switching and borrowing (MA 2020)
- Whe(r)e a(r)e we going, bey? Rhoticity in Bahamian English (MA 2019)
- Rhoticity in Bahamian English: Broadcast Texts (MA 2019)
- Verb complementation in Bangladeshi English as compared to Indian English: A corpus-based study of clausal verb complementational preference (MA 2019)
- Linguistic representations of female authority and submissiveness in the New York Times‘ coverage of #MeToo (MA 2019)
- A linguistic comparison of historical and contemporary Bahamian speeches (MA 2019)
- Bangladeshi English (MA 2019)
- A linguistic analysis of the Me Too and Time’s Up debates (MA 2019)
- Rhoticity in Bahamian English (MA 2019)
- English-Swahili: A typological comparison (BA 2018-19)
- Korean(ized) English in the diaspora: A longitudinal study of an American second-language speaker (MA 2018)
- Verb complementation patterns in Hong Kong and Singapore English (MA 2018)
- "All in all ist das echt amazing": Structural characteristics of German-English intrasentential code-switching in computer-mediated communication (BA 2017-18)
- African American Vernacular English in the film Fences: An accurate depiction of the variety? (BA 2017-18)
- Postvocalic /r/ in Bahamian English: An auditory-impressionistic study (StEx 2017)
- The a-vowels in acrolectal Bahamian English: A sociophonetic analysis (StEx 2017)
- African American Vernacular English in computer-mediated communication: A corpus-based study of weblogs (BA 2017)
- Manipulating pitch and speech rate: gender and variety differences in the effects of voice quality features on the perception of personality characteristics (BA 2017)
- English as a lingua franca among students in Munich (BA 2017)
- Attitudes towards South African English accents (BA 2017)
- A discourse analysis of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Debates (BA 2017)
- A linguistic analysis of Aboriginal English sociolinguistic interviews (BA 2017)
- On the use of African American Vernacular English by white hip hop artists (Iggy Azalea) (BA 2017)
- He is easy to please vs. Er ist leicht zufriedenzustellen: A contrastive analysis of raising constructions in English and German (StEx 2016)
- Word formation in Hong Kong English (BA 2016)
- A diachronic study of modality in Indian English newspapers (MA 2016)
- The use of English in Indian newspapers: Research on genitive variation (BA 2016)
- The functions of Anglicisms in the recontextualization of German hip hop cultural hybrids (StEx 2016)
- Automated analysis of conversational narrative (BA 2015-16)
- The representation of social actors: An analysis of social studies textbooks (StEx 2016)
- A diachronic analysis of Jamaican newspaper language (MA 2015)
- A study on the spontaneous production of the Present Perfect by German learners of English
(StEx 2015)
- Cajun English (StEx 2015)
- Pronunciation features of English-language pop singers (BA 2015)
- English-French Language Contact in Canada: A quantitative and comparative analysis of lexical borrowing (MA/StEx 2014)
- Possessive constructions in postcolonial Englishes (StEx 2014)
- The influence of the native language on language creation (MA 2014)
- English-Chinese code switching in New York City (MA 2014)
- Dublin English and its spread through Ireland: A study of accent (BA 2014)
- Spelling variation in Canadian English: A study of blogs (BA 2014)
- Negation in Urban Bahamian Creole: A Variable Analysis (StEx 2014)
- Past tense marking in colloquial Singapore English (Magister/StEx 2014)
- The copula in earlier AAVE: The Hoodoo texts (BA 2014)
- Patterns of conversational interaction in Bahamian Creole English (Magister/StEx 2013)
- African American English in film (BA 2013)
- A corpus-based, sociohistorical analysis of negation patterns in Late Modern English (Magister/StEx 2013)
- Barbadian Standard English: Americanized or Creolized Queen’s English? (StEx 2013)
- American versus British Linguistic Influences in Virgin Islands Press Texts (Magister 2013)
- Anglicisms in business talks (Magister 2013)
- On the dubbing of humour: Language plays, cultural elements and slang terms. A parallel corpus analysis of the comedy series Scrubs (StEx 2013)
- Whether I am real or not? An analysis of a European American speaker’s use of AAVE (Magister 2013)
- Discourse Strategies of Face-Work in Football Discourse (Magister 2013)
- Do accents still matter? A matched guise survey comparing contemporary attitudes towards Received Pronunciation and regional accents in Great Britain (StEx 2013)
- A comparative study of the pronunciation of vowels in white second language South African English speakers and white first language South African English speakers (StEx 2012)
- Jamaican proverbs – imagery, symbolism, and creole identity (Diplomarbeit Wirtschaftspädagogik 2012)
- English as a lingua franca in international exchange students' communities of practice (StEx 2012)
- Canadian English on the West Coast: Its Status and Relation to British and American English (StEx 2012)
- White Hip Hop in the U.S.: A Sociolinguistic Investigation (StEx 2011)
- The Boarder Words: A Sociolinguistic Enquiry into the Lexicon of Skateboarding (StEx 2011)
