Lars Hinrichs is a linguist interested in varieties of English. For his dissertation work at the University of Freiburg, he studied the use of English and Creole in online communication by Jamaicans. He has also researched syntactic differences between British and American written English from a statistical perspective. Since joining the UT English department in 2007, he has been directing the Texas English Project, which researches the different kinds of English spoken in Texas.
Lars Hinrichs
