Dr. Thomas Biermeier is a lecturer at the University of Regensburg, Germany. His research interests centre on word-formation and lexicology, morphology, varieties of English and corpus linguistics. His dissertation on “Word-formation in New Englishes” was published in 2008. He has given talks in Europe, Asia and Australia, and published articles such as Word-formation in New Englishes – Properties and trends (2009), Lexical trends in Asian Englishes (2010), Lexical Trends in Philippine English (2011), Compounding and suffixation in World Englishes (2014) and Philippine English lexicon (forthcoming).