Dr. Muhammad Shakir

Current affiliations

Professur für Variationslinguistik (Prof. Deuber)
Johannisstr. 12-20, 48143 Münster

Academic profiles

Further Profiles

Curriculum Vitae (CV)

Research Focus

Corpus Linguistics
World Englishes
Computer-Mediated Communication
Register Analysis
South Asian Englishes
Caribbean (Online) Englishes
Language Variation

Functions and Memberships
since 06/2024	Member, Anglistikverband
since 05/2023	Mitglied, Societas Linguistica Europaea
since 07/2017	Mitglied, International Society for the Linguistics of English

Publications

Conventionalization and variation in computer-mediated communication New perspectives on Nigerian Pidgin spelling Deuber, Dagmar; Shakir, Muhammad; Oyebola, Folajimi Kehinde (2025) In: English World-Wide, 46(1), 1-27. doi:10.1075/eww.24018.deu Research article (journal) \| Peer reviewed \| Published
Modal verbs in South Asian Online Englishes: Exploring the use of ᴍᴜsᴛ, (ʜᴀᴠᴇ) ɢᴏᴛ ᴛᴏ, ʜᴀᴠᴇ ᴛᴏ and ɴᴇᴇᴅ ᴛᴏ Shakir, Muhammad (2025) In: World Englishes, 1(1), 1-21. doi:10.1111/weng.12726 Research article (journal) \| Peer reviewed \| Published
Code-switching in South Asian English CMC. Shakir, Muhammad Deuber, Dagmar (2024) In: English World-Wide, 45(3), 311-341. doi:10.1075/eww.23068.sha Research article (journal) \| Peer reviewed \| Published
An exploratory investigation of functional variation in South Asian online Englishes Shakir Muhammad (2024) In: English Language & Linguistics, 28(2), 371-400. doi:10.1017/s1360674324000017 Research article (journal) \| Peer reviewed \| Published
The Multi-Feature Tagger of English (MFTE): Rationale, description and evaluation Foll Le Elen , Shakir Muhammad (2024) In: Research in Corpus Linguistics, 13(2), 63-93. doi:10.32714/ricl.13.02.03 Research article (journal) \| Peer reviewed \| Published

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Projects

Variation in English on the internet and its implications: an empirical study of web registers in South Asian countries

Duration: 01/03/2021 - 31/08/2026 | 1st Funding period

Funded by: DFG - Individual Grants Programme

Type of project: Individual project