Editorial activities

• Co-editor of the Series Bamberg Studies in English Linguistics (Lang)
  
• Co-editor of the Series Bamberger Beiträge zur Linguistik (University of Bamberg Press)
  
• Member of the Editorial Board of Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (Mouton de Gruyter)
  
• Member of the Advisory Board for the series Language in Performance (LIP; Narr-Francke-Attempto, Tübingen)
• Member of the Board of Consulting Editors for Linguistics
  
• Member of the Board of Consulting Editors for ATLANTIS, Journal of the Spanish Association for English and American Studies (AEDEAN), section Historical Linguistics
• Member of the editorial and advisory boards of the conference series Modality in English and The International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English (ICLCE 2005ff.)
• Referee for (inter alia): British Academy; Swiss National Science Foundation; Humboldt Foundation; German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD); Research Foundation Flanders
  
• Referee reports for volumes on corpus linguistics, modality, grammaticalization, usage-based approaches and construction grammar for Blackwell, CUP, EUP, OUP, Lang and Mouton de Gruyter
  
• Referee reports for the journals English Language and Linguistics; English World-Wide; Journal of Germanic Linguistics; Language; Language Variation & Change; Teaching English as a Second or Other Language, and the series Studies in the History of the English Language

Memberships

• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft
  
• Anglistenverband
  
• Member of the Nominating Committee for the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE; with Bas Aarts, Laurie Bauer, Anne Curzan and Rajend Mesthrie) 
• Trimberg Research Academy; Bamberg Graduate School of Linguistics; Bamberg Centre for Medieval Studies
  
• Alumnus of and grants by (inter alia): Bavarian Ministry for Science and Research; DAAD, DFG, Fulbright and Villigst.