Dr. Sven Leuckert

Photograph of Sven Leuckert

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I am a linguist and currently work as a post-doc at the Chair of English Linguistics at TU Dresden, Germany. My main research interests are:

  • Varieties of English, especially South and Southeast Asian Englishes and English in Madeira

  • Multilingualism, language contact, and language typology

  • Specialised registers, in particular Mountaineering English

  • Syntax, especially non-canonical syntax and syntactic change

  • Communities (of Practice) on Reddit

  • English as a Lingua Franca

  • Language and/of horror