This page has information on the research projects conducted by the Department of English.
Information on individual research of staff members can be found on their research profile
sites, linked in the Staff page.
International Corpus of English – Sri Lanka
The Department of English was instrumental in compiling the Sri Lankan English component
of the International Corpus of English (ICE). Prof Dushyanthi Mendis was a co-principal
investigator of this project, collaborating with Prof Joybrato Mukherjee in Justus Liebig
University, Germany. It was launched in 2019.
Sri Lanka English Newspaper Corpus (SLENC)
This corpus of 32 million words was completed in 2023, as a component of Department’s
research project funded through AHEAD (World Bank loan cycle 3). To conduct a frequency
search and to develop the full corpus, please visit this page