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 were the organisers of a scientific network on 'Syntax beyond the Canon', funded by the DFG (419901034). The main output of this network is an open-access edited collection in the Studies in English Language series with Cambridge University Press [DOI].

Research output (selection)

2025: open-access edited collection Non-Canonical English Syntax: Concepts, Methods, and Approaches (co-edited with Teresa Pham), Cambridge University Press [DOI]
2021: journal article in English World-Wide: "Non-canonical syntax in an Expanding Circle variety: Fronting in spoken Korean(ized) English" (co-authored with Sofia Rüdiger) [DOI]
2019: monograph Topicalization in Asian Englishes: Forms, Functions, and Frequencies of a Fronting Construction, Routledge [DOI]
2016: journal article in 10plus1 Living Linguistics: "Copula deletion in English as a Lingua Franca in Asia" (co-authored with Theresa Neumaier) [Link]

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