What is WEiN?
WEiN is a community of linguists who are interested in varieties of English throughout the world. We are based at universities throughout Northrhine-Westfalia in Germany. Our interests include the phonetic, phonological, morphological, syntactic, and pragmatic description of Englishes around the world. Furthermore, we are interested in language use in diasporic communities, especially within African communities in Germany and especially in NRW. Our researchers actively use and develop a wide array of methodologies, including corpus linguistic approaches and language attitudes testing.