- IAAK
- Recent linguistic changes
- Linguistic complexity
- Modality and aspect in English and other languages
- English-German contrasts, particularly pragmatic and stylistic contrasts
- Translation studies
- Language contact
- Principles of language change
- Grammaticalization
Bruns, H., & Kranich, S. (2022). Terms of address: A contrastive investigation of ongoing changes in British, American and Indian English and in German. Journal of Contrastive Pragmatics, 3(1), 112-143.
Kranich, S., & Breban, T. (Eds.). (2021). Lost in change: Causes and processes in the loss of grammatical elements and constructions [Studies in Language Companion Series 218]. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Kranich, S., Hampel, E., & Bruns, H. (2020). Changes in the modal domain in different varieties of English as potential effects of democratization. Language Sciences, 79, 1–15.
Kranich, S. (2016). Contrastive pragmatics and translation: Evaluation, epistemic modality and communicative style in English and German [Pragmatics and Beyond, New Series 261]. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Kranich, S. (2010). The progressive in Modern English: A corpus-based study of grammaticalization and related changes [Language and Computers – Studies in Practical Linguistics 72]. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
Becher, V., House, J., & Kranich, S. (2009). Convergence and divergence of communicative norms through language contact in translation. In K. Braunmüller & J. House (Eds.), Convergence and divergence in language contact situations [Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism 8] (pp. 125–151). Amsterdam: Benjamins.
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