Editorial activities

• 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
   
• Occasional referee reports for the journals English Language and Linguistics; Language; Language Variation & Change; Teaching English as a Second or Other Language, and the series Studies in the History of the English Language
   
• Member of the editorial/advisory board of the conference series Modality in English.
   
• Member of the Advisory Board for The International Conferences on the Linguistics of Contemporary English (ICLCE 2005ff.)

Memberships

• 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)
   
• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft
   
• Anglistenverband
   
• Member of the Bamberg Centre for Medieval Studies
   
• Alumnus of DAAD and Villigst Grants