Non-Canonical English Syntax
Description
Non-canonical syntactic structures, such as topicalization and left-dislocation, are important discourse-pragmatic and information-structural features of all varieties of English. Non-canonical syntax has been an important aspect in much of my research and continues to be one of my main research interests.
Teresa Pham (University of Vechta) and I are the organisers of a scientific network on 'Syntax beyond the Canon', funded by the DFG (419901034); the network's website is https://sites.google.com/view/nocasyne/home. The main output of this network will be an edited collection as part of the Studies in English Language series with Cambridge University Press.
As part of NoCaSynE, I am involved in two projects:
a meta-study on the usage of 'canonical', 'non-canonical', and related terms (with Sofia Rüdiger, University of Bayreuth),
a study on minus-features in English as a Lingua Franca (with Theresa Neumaier, TU Dortmund University).
Research output (selection):
2018-2023: various talks as part of the network meetings of NoCaSynE (see Presentations)
2021: research paper "Non-canonical syntax in an Expanding Circle variety: Fronting in spoken Korean(ized) English" (co-authored with Sofia Rüdiger, published in English World-Wide 41(1): 33-58)
2019: monograph Topicalization in Asian Englishes: Forms, Functions, and Frequencies of a Fronting Construction (Routledge)
2016: research paper "Copula deletion in English as a Lingua Franca in Asia" (co-authored with Theresa Neumaier, published in 10plus1Living Linguistics 2: 86-103)