Publications

Monographs, Textbooks, and Cambridge Elements

[A3] 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. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009323796

• Reviewed in: English Language and Linguistics (Catherine Laliberté)

[A2] Lange, Claudia & Sven Leuckert (2020). Corpus Linguistics for World Englishes: A Guide for Research. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429489433

• Reviewed in: English Today (Huayong Li); International Journal of Corpus Linguistics (Guyanne Wilson); Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology (Élise Guillemin-Bonniec)

[A1] Leuckert, Sven (2019). Topicalization in Asian Englishes: Forms, Functions, and Frequencies of a Fronting Construction. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351000437

• Reviewed in: Journal of English Linguistics (Cristina Suárez-Gómez); Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics (Gabriela Anidora Brozbă)

Edited Collections and Special Issues

[B5] Leuckert, Sven & Teresa Pham (eds.) (2025). Non-Canonical English Syntax: Concepts, Methods, and Approaches. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Studies in English Language) (OA)

[B4] Rüdiger, Sofia, Sven Leuckert & Jakob R. E. Leimgruber (eds.) (2025). World Englishes and Social Media: Platforms, Variation, and Meta-Discourse. London: Bloomsbury Academic. (Bloomsbury Advances in World Englishes)

[B3] Rüdiger, Sofia, Theresa Neumaier, Sven Leuckert & Sarah Buschfeld (eds.) (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) https://doi.org/10.1515/9781399527866 

[B2] 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 of Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies 32(2). (OA) https://angl.winter-verlag.de/issue/ANGL/2021/2

[B1] Leuckert, Sven & Sofia Rüdiger (eds.) (2021). Discourse Markers and World Englishes. Special Issue of World Englishes 40(4). https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/1467971x/2021/40/4

Journal Articles (peer-reviewed)

[C18] Neumaier, Theresa & Sven Leuckert (accepted). "Colloquial Portuguese for English health tourists: A sociolinguistic investigation of a 19th-century Portuguese-English language guidebook." Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics.

[C17] Leuckert, Sven & Claudia Lange (aop). "'Bad' Indian English on Reddit." Asian Englishes ahead of print. (OA) https://doi.org/10.1080/13488678.2025.2549180 

[C16] Neels, Jakob, Sven Leuckert & Arne Lohmann (aop). "Grammaticalisation of habitual aspect in World Englishes: Assessing trajectories, areal patterns and rates of change with synchronic corpora." Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory ahead of print. (OA) https://doi.org/10.1515/cllt-2024-0064 

[C15] Leuckert, Sven (2025). "Good cheese and nutritious carbs: Evaluation and engagement features in mountaineering food blogs." Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies 36(2): 83–105. (OA) https://doi.org/10.33675/ANGL/2025/2/8 

[C14] Messerli, Thomas C., Daria Dayter, Sven Leuckert, Aatu Liimatta, Hanna Mahler, Axel Bohmann, Gustavo Kozma & Rafaela Tosin (2025). "Digital debating cultures: Communicative practices on Reddit." Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 40(1): 227–240. (OA) https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqaf005 

[C13] Leuckert, Sven (2024). "From Mount Cook to Aoraki? A diachronic analysis of mountain names and naming practices in the New Zealand Alpine Journal." Namenkundliche Informationen 116(1): 231–249. (OA) https://doi.org/10.58938/ni744

[C12] Leuckert, Sven (2024). "Lexicographical resources for mountaineers: A usage survey." Lexicographica 40(1): 277–307. (OA) https://doi.org/10.1515/lex-2024-0012

[C11] Leuckert, Sven (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): 373–401. https://doi.org./10.1353/dic.2024.a944944

[C10] Leuckert, Sven & Asya Yurchenko (2024). "'Her language, herself': The language of female protagonists in horror films." Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies 35(3): 121–147. (OA) https://doi.org/10.33675/ANGL/2024/3/10 

[C9] Buschfeld, Sarah, Sven Leuckert, Andreas Weilinghoff & Claus Weihs (2024). "How real is the quantitative turn? Investigating statistics as the new normal in linguistics." ICAME Journal 48(1): 1–22. (OA) https://doi.org/10.2478/icame-2024-0001

[C8] 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

[C7] 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. (OA) https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266078421000328

[C6] 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. (OA) https://doi.org/10.2478/icame-2021-0006

[C5] 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

[C4] 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

[C3] 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

[C2] Leuckert, Sven & Theresa Neumaier (2016). "Copula deletion in English as a Lingua Franca in Asia." 10plus1Living Linguistics 2: 86–103. (OA) http://10plus1journal.com/?page_id=609

[C1] 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 Collections (peer-reviewed)

[D11] Neumaier, Theresa & Sven Leuckert (2025). "Non-canonical syntax in English as a Lingua Franca: Minus-plurals between language contact and emergent grammar." Non-Canonical English Syntax: Concepts, Methods, and Approaches. Eds. Sven Leuckert & Teresa Pham. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 307–330. (Studies in English Language) (OA)

[D10] Leuckert, Sven & Sofia Rüdiger (2025). "Talking about (non-)canonicity: A study of linguistic terminology." Non-Canonical English Syntax: Concepts, Methods, and Approaches. Eds. Sven Leuckert & Teresa Pham. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 14–39. (Studies in English Language) (OA)

[D9] Rüdiger, Sofia & Sven Leuckert (2025). "Valuing (Asian) Englishes on YouTube: Using video comments for World Englishes research." World Englishes and Social Media: Platforms, Variation, and Meta-Discourse. Eds. Sofia Rüdiger, Sven Leuckert & Jakob R. E. Leimgruber. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 175–198. (Bloomsbury Advances in World Englishes)

[D8] 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

[D7] Lange, Claudia & Sven Leuckert (2020). "Tag questions and gender in Indian English." Gender in World Englishes. Ed. Tobias Bernaisch. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 69–93. (Studies in English Language) https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108696739.004

[D6] 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

[D5] 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

[D4] 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

[D3] 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) https://www.aisthesis.de/epages/63645342.sf/de_DE/?ObjectPath=/Shops/63645342/Products/978-3-8498-1561-5

[D2] 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

[D1] 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: Mouton de Gruyter, 235–262. (Topics in English Linguistics 101) https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110583571-011

Other Contributions (not peer-reviewed)

[E8] Leuckert, Sven & Teresa Pham (2025). "Synopsis: Concepts, approaches, and methods in non-canonical syntax." Non-Canonical English Syntax: Concepts, Methods, and Approaches. Eds. Sven Leuckert & Teresa Pham. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 331–336. (Studies in English Language) (OA)

[E7] Pham, Teresa & Sven Leuckert (2025). "Introduction: New perspectives on non-canonical English syntax." Non-Canonical English Syntax: Concepts, Methods, and Approaches. Eds. Sven Leuckert & Teresa Pham. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1–13. (Studies in English Language) (OA)

[E6] Leuckert, Sven, Sofia Rüdiger & Jakob R. E. Leimgruber (2025). "Englishes online and online Englishes." World Englishes and Social Media: Platforms, Variation, and Meta-Discourse. Eds. Sofia Rüdiger, Sven Leuckert & Jakob R. E. Leimgruber. London: Bloomsbury Academic. (Bloomsbury Advances in World Englishes)

[E5] Leuckert, Sven, Sofia Rüdiger, Theresa Neumaier & Sarah Buschfeld (2025). "Synopsis: The present and future of the Dynamic Model." World Englishes in the 21st Century: New Perspectives and Challenges to the Dynamic Model. Eds. Sofia Rüdiger, Theresa Neumaier, Sven Leuckert & Sarah Buschfeld. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 379–388. (New Directions in World Englishes Research) https://doi.org/10.1515/9781399527866-025 

[E4] Neumaier, Theresa, Sven Leuckert, Sofia Rüdiger & Sarah Buschfeld (2025). "Introduction: Twenty years of the Dynamic Model." World Englishes in the 21st Century: New Perspectives and Challenges to the Dynamic Model. Eds. Sofia Rüdiger, Theresa Neumaier, Sven Leuckert & Sarah Buschfeld. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 3–21. (New Directions in World Englishes Research) https://doi.org/10.1515/9781399527866-006 

[E3] 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." (OA) OSF Preprints. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/92zhg

[E2] Leuckert, Sven & Sarah Buschfeld (2021). "Modelling spoken and written English: An introduction." Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies 32(2): 7–14. (OA) https://doi.org/10.33675/ANGL/2021/2/4

[E1] Leuckert, Sven & Sofia Rüdiger (2021). "Discourse markers and world Englishes." World Englishes 40(4): 482–487. (OA) https://doi.org/10.1111/weng.12535

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

[F5] Hansen, Beke & Sven Leuckert (2022). "New Englishes and Creolistics." Part of "Chapter I: English Language." The Year’s Work in English Studies 101(1): 74–97. https://doi.org/10.1093/ywes/maac001 

[F4] Hansen, Beke & Sven Leuckert (2021). "New Englishes and Creolistics." Part of "Chapter I: English Language." The Year’s Work in English Studies 100(1): 80–102. https://doi.org/10.1093/ywes/maab001

[F3] Leuckert, Sven (2020). "New Englishes and Creolistics." Part of "Chapter I: English Language." The Year’s Work in English Studies 99(1): 114–124. https://doi.org/10.1093/ywes/maaa001

[F2] Leuckert, Sven (2019). "New Englishes and Creolistics." Part of "Chapter I: English Language." The Year's Work in English Studies 98(1): 96–110. https://doi.org/10.1093/ywes/maz004

[F1] Kautzsch, Alexander & Sven Leuckert (2018). "New Englishes and Creolistics." Part of "Chapter I: English Language." The Year's Work in English Studies 97(1): 121–134. https://doi.org/10.1093/ywes/may010

Reviews

[G6] Leuckert, Sven (2025). "Review of Loureiro-Porto, Lucía. 2024. Pragmatic Markers in World Englishes: kind of and sort of as a Case in Point. València: Publicacions de la Universitat de València. ISBN: 978-84-1118-306-2. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.7203/PUV-OA-307-9." Research in Corpus Linguistics 13(1): 238–242. https://doi.org/10.32714/ricl.13.01.13 

[G5] Leuckert, Sven (2025). "Raquel P. Romasanta, Probabilistic variability in clausal verb complementation in World Englishes (Linguistic Insights 301). Bern: Peter Lang, 2023. Pp. xvi + 349. ISBN 9783034347020." English Language and Linguistics 29(2): 418–422. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1360674324000182 

[G4] 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. https://doi.org/10.1075/eww.22002.leu

[G3] 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. (OA) https://doi.org/10.2478/icame-2019-0006

[G2] Leuckert, Sven (2017). "Pietikäinen, Sari et al. (2016). Sociolinguistics from the Periphery.Small Languages in New Circumstances. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press." LinguistList. (OA) https://linguistlist.org/issues/28/28-432/

[G1] Leuckert, Sven (2016). "Edwards, Alison (2016). English in the Netherlands. Amsterdam: John Benjamins." LinguistList. (OA) https://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-5256/