Ryan Durgasingh

I am currently a research fellow at the Chair of English Linguistics, Ruhr University, Bochum, and a PhD candidate in the Graduate School Empirical and Applied Linguistics at the University of Münster.

In 2014, I graduated from the University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus, with an MPhil in Literatures in English (stylistics focus). My ongoing PhD work focuses on morphosyntactic variation in Caribbean Englishes using a corpus-based approach. In order to do so, the study investigates three variables (existentials, modals of obligation and necessity, and progressives) across 8 varieties of English – Grenadian, Jamaican, Trinbagonian, Filipino, Nigerian, Pakistani, American and Anglo-English. The dissertation uses a range of text-types in its analysis, from more informal conversations to more formal news broadcasts.

From 2007 – 2016, I taught undergraduate courses in English Linguistics at The University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus. After this, I held the positions of Lehrkraft für besondere Aufgaben from 2016 – 2022, and Wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeiter from 2022 – 2023 at the Chair for Variation Linguistics, University of Münster.