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Academic Functions

• Academic Advisor
• Deputy Chairman of  KU ZLB (Center for Teacher Education)
• Modulbeauftragter Lehramt

Academic CV

• 2019 Bavarian Higher Education Teaching Certificate – advanced level (206 study units)
• 2019 Chairman of the KU's interfaculty examination committee
• 2018 Bavarian ­Higher ­Education ­Teaching­ Certificate – intermediate level (120 study units)
• since 2017 Assistant Professor (tenured; Akademischer Rat), KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
• 2015 Assistant Professor (Lehrkraft für besondere Aufgaben), KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
• 2014 PhD in English Linguistics: „The Structure of the Noun Phrase in Singaporean and Kenyan English. A Corpus-Based Analysis“, Regensburg University (Prof. Dr. Edgar W. Schneider)
• 2010–2014 Lecturer in English Linguistics, Regensburg University (Chair Prof. Dr. Edgar W. Schneider)
• 2004–2010 Studied German and English Language and Literature (Teacher’s training course, Regensburg University)

Publications

Monographs

Brunner, Thomas (2017). Simplicity and Typological Effects in the Emergence of New Englishes. The Noun Phrase in Singaporean and Kenyan English. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter.

Articles

Hoffmann, Thomas, and Thomas Brunner (2022) Construction Grammar meets the Dynamic Model. In: Aloysius Ngefac, Hans-Georg Wolf and Thomas Hoffmann, eds. World Englishes and Creole Languages Today. Vol. 1: The Schneiderian Thinking and Beyond & Vol. 2: The Bobdian Thinking and Beyond. München: Lincom, 25-38.

Brunner, Thomas (2021). "Into-causatives in World Englishes". In: English World-Wide Online First. doi.org/10.1075/eww.21068.bru

Brunner, Thomas and Thomas Hoffmann (2020). "The way-construction in World Englishes". In: English World-Wide 41.1, 1–32.

Hoffmann, Thomas, Thomas Brunner and Jakob Horsch (2020). "English Comparative Correlative Constructions: A Usage-based Account". Open Linguistics 6.1

Hoffmann Thomas, Jakob Horsch and Thomas Brunner (2019). "The more data, the better: A usage-based account of the English comparative correlative construction". In: Cognitive Linguistics 30.1, 1–36.

Brunner, Thomas (2014). “Structural nativization, typology and complexity: Noun phrase structures in British, Kenyan and Singaporean English”. In: English Language and Linguistics 18.1, 23–48.