Alexander Laube

Alexander Laube is a Lecturer at the University of Regensburg's Department of English and American Studies, part of the Faculty of Languages, Literature, and Cultures. Based in office PT 3.2.80, he conducts research and teaches courses including Introduction to English Linguistics, Text Analysis, and Variationist Sociolinguistics.

His primary research examines:

• Caribbean English varieties, especially Bahamian Creole and its grammatical structures
• Language variation through corpus linguistics methods
• Sociolinguistic attitudes toward creole languages
• Comparative analyses of English standardization in postcolonial contexts
• Dialectal features in educational frameworks

Publications focus on empirical analyses of linguistic features in Caribbean Englishes, utilizing corpus-based and sociolinguistic approaches. Recent work investigates grammatical variation, creole continua, and sociolinguistic identity, appearing in journals like World Englishes and Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages.

He has presented research at international conferences including ICAME (International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English) and NWAV (New Ways of Analyzing Variation).