English Department Shakir

Research Assistant, Chair of Variation Linguistics

Contact:
Englisches Seminar
Johannisstraße 12-20
D - 48143 Münster

Room: 307
Phone: +49 (0) 251 - 83 - 2 45 91
E-Mail: muhammad.shakir

Consulting hours during the lecture period:

by appointment via email

Research Foci

External Functions

since 07.2017: International Society for the Linguistics of English (Mitglied)
since 05.2023: Societas Linguistica Europaea (Mitglied)
since 06.2024: Anglistikverband (Member)

Project

Research Articles (Journals)

A multidimensional study of interactive registers in Pakistani and US English
Shakir M, Deuber D (2018) World Englishes 37 (4), 607–623, doi: 10.1111/weng.12352.
A multidimensional analysis of Pakistani and U.S. English blogs and columns
Shakir M, Deuber D (2019) English World-Wide 40 (1), 1–23, doi: 10.1075/eww.00020.sha.
Compiling a corpus of South Asian online Englishes: A report, some reflections and a pilot study
Shakir M, Deuber D (2023) ICAME Journal 47 (1), 119–139, doi: 10.2478/icame-2023-0007.
An exploratory investigation of functional variation in South Asian online Englishes
Shakir M (2024) English Language & Linguistics 28 (2), 371–400, doi: 10.1017/s1360674324000017.
The Multi-Feature Tagger of English (MFTE): Rationale, description and evaluation
Foll Le Elen S M (2024) Research in Corpus Linguistics 13 (2), 63–93, doi: 10.32714/ricl.13.02.03.
Code-switching in South Asian English CMC.
Shakir, Deuber M, Dagmar (2024) English World-Wide 45 (3), 311–341, doi: 10.1075/eww.23068.sha.
Modal verbs in South Asian Online Englishes: Exploring the use of ᴍᴜsᴛ, (ʜᴀᴠᴇ) ɢᴏᴛ ᴛᴏ, ʜᴀᴠᴇ ᴛᴏ and ɴᴇᴇᴅ ᴛᴏ
[Preprint]Shakir M (2025) World Englishes 1 (1), 1–21, doi: 10.1111/weng.12726.
Conventionalization and variation in computer-mediated communication New perspectives on Nigerian Pidgin spelling
Deuber D, Shakir M, Oyebola F K (2025) English World-Wide 46 (1), 1–27, doi: 10.1075/eww.24018.deu.