Past Projects

January 1994 - December 1996 in the context of project B 13 of SFB 312 of DfG: organisation and choice of texts for compilation of two machine-readable corpora of English (FLOB and Frown).
May 1999 - December 2002 in cooperation with the University of Lancaster (Geoffrey Leech and Nicholas Smith): compilation of a tagged version of the FLOB corpus.

Ongoing Projects

In cooperation with the Universities in Arizona (Douglas Biber), Southern California (Edward Finegan), Helsinki (Matti Rissanen) and Uppsala (Merja Kytö): extension of ARCHER 3 (A Representative Corpus of Historical English Registers).

Compilation of the component 'Fiji English' in the context of the International Corpus of English (ICE-Fiji).

Compilation of the 1930s BROWN prequel (B-BROWN).

Digitalization of the Lady Mary Hamilton Archive.

Functions

2003 - 2010 Member of ICAME's Advisory Board

Reviewing

I have reviewed articles for various peer-reviewed academic journals in the past (e.g. JEL, ICAME, ELL) and abstracts for conferences (ICLCE1, ICLCE2, ICLCE3, ICAME conferences, CHRONOS 10)