Publications and presentations
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Books and corpora
- Books and Corpora
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- Huber, Magnus (2020). The Old Bailey Corpus 1720-1913, Version 3.0.
- Huber, Magnus, Magnus Nissel & Karin Puga (2016). The Old Bailey Corpus 1720-1913, Version 2.0.
- Huber, Magnus & Kari Dako (2013). International Corpus of English, Ghana (written component).
- Huber, Magnus, Magnus Nissel, Patrick Maiwald & Bianca Widlitzki (2012). The Old Bailey Corpus. Spoken English in the 18th and 19th centuries.
- Huber, Magnus (1999). Ghanaian Pidgin English in its West African context: a sociohistorical and structural analysis. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Edited books
- Edited books
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2014
- Sarah Buschfeld, Thomas Hoffmann, Magnus Huber & Alexander Kautzsch (eds). The evolution of Englishes. The dynamic model and beyond. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
2013
- Michaelis, Susanne Maria, Philippe Maurer, Martin Haspelmath & Magnus Huber (eds.). Survey of pidgin and creole languages. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Vol 1: English-based and Dutch-based languages.
- Vol 2: Portuguese-based, Spanish-based and French-based languages.
- Vol 3: Contact languages based on languages from Africa, Asia, Australia and the Americas.
- Michaelis, Susanne Maria, Philippe Maurer, Martin Haspelmath & Magnus Huber (eds.)(eds.), Melanie Revis & Bradley Taylor (collabs.). The atlas of pidgin and creole language structures. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Huber, Magnus & Joybrato Mukherjee (eds.): Corpus Linguistics and Variation in English: Focus on Non-native Englishes. University of Helsinki: VARIENG, available at the VARIENG website.
2012
- Mukherjee, Joybrato & Magnus Huber (eds.) Corpus linguistics and variation in English. Theory and description. Amsterdam: Brill | Rodopi.
2007
- Huber, Magnus & Viveka Velupillai (eds.) Synchronic and diachronic perspectives on contact languages. (Creole Language Library, 32). Amsterdam: Benjamins.
1999
- Huber, Magnus & Mikael Parkvall (eds.) Spreading the word. The issue of diffusion among the Atlantic Creoles. London: University of Westminster Press.
Book series
- Book series
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Book series: Textbooks in English Language and Linguistics (TELL)
(edited by Joybrato Mukherjee and Magnus Huber)
- Gut, Ulrike (2009): Introduction to English Phonetics and Phonology. (TELL 1) Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.
- Esser, Jürgen (2009): Introduction to English Text-linguistics. (TELL 2) Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.
- Kreyer, Rolf (2010): Introduction to English Syntax. (TELL 3) Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.
- Bergs, Alexander (2012): Synchronic English Linguistics. (TELL 4) Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.
- Tokar, Alexander (2012): Introduction to English Morphology. (TELL 5) Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.
- Kohnen, Thomas (2014): Introduction to the History of English. (TELL 6) Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.
Articles
- Articles
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2020
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Huber, Magnus. "Unearthing the diachrony of World Englishes". In: Schreier, Daniel; Hundt, Marianne & Schneider, Edgar W. The Cambridge Handbook of World Englishes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 484-505.
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Huber, Magnus. "Diachronic Studies of Pidgins and Creoles: Exploring pidgins and creoles over time". In: Ansaldo, Umberto & Meyerhoff, Miriam (eds.). The Routledge Handbook of Pidgin and Creole Languages. London: Routledge, 418-433.
2018
- Huber, Magnus & Viveka Velupillai. "Die Database of Early Pidgin and Creole Texts: Sprachplanung, Sprachideologien und Sprachattitüden gegenüber dem Pidginenglisch in Deutsch-Neuguinea". In: Birte Kellermeier-Rehbein; Schulz, Matthias & Stolberg, Doris (eds). Sprachgebrauch, Sprachkonzepte und Sprachenpolitik in kolonialen und postkolonialen Kontexten. Berlin: Akademie Verlag.
2017
- Huber, Magnus. "Early recordings from Ghana. A variationist approach to the phonological history of an Outer Circle variety". In: Hickey, Raymond (ed.). Listening to the past. Audio records of accents of English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Huber, Magnus. "Structural and sociolinguistic factors conditioning the choice of relativizers in 18th and 19th century English. A diachronic study based on the Old Bailey Corpus". Nordic Journal of English Studies. Special Issue: Texts from speech and speech in texts. Kytö, Merja & Terry Walker (eds).
2016
- Huber, Magnus & Viveka Velupillai. "Sprachkontakt in kolonialen Kontexten II. Das Pidgin-Englische in den ehemaligen deutschen Kolonien." In: Stolz, Thomas; Warnke, Ingo H. & Schmidt-Brücken, Daniel (eds). Studienbuch Sprache und Kolonialismus. Eine interdisziplinäre Einführung zu Sprache und Kommunikation in kolonialen Kontexten. Berlin: de Gruyter, 121-144.
- Huber, Magnus & Bianca Widlitzki. "Taboo language and swearing in 18th and 19th century English. A diachronic study based on the Old Bailey Corpus". In: López-Couso, María José; Méndez-Naya, Belén; Núñez-Pertejo, Paloma & Palacios-Martínez, Ignacio M. (eds). Corpus linguistics on the move. Exploring and understanding English through corpora. Amsterdam & New York: Brill/Rodopi, 313-336.
2015
- Huber, Magnus, Katrin Purgay & Silvio Moreira de Sousa. "Die Korrespondenz zwischen Adolphus Mann und Hugo Schuchardt". In: Bernhard Hurch (Hg.). 2007-. Hugo Schuchardt Archiv.
2014
- Huber, Buschfeld, Hoffman & Kautzsch. "Preface". In: Buschfeld, Sarah; Hoffmann, Thomas; Huber, Magnus & Kautzsch, Alexander (eds). The evolution of Englishes. The dynamic model and beyond. Amsterdam: Benjamins, xi-xviii.
- Huber, Buschfeld, Hoffman & Kautzsch. "The evolution of Englishes. The dynamic model and beyond". In: Buschfeld, Sarah; Hoffmann, Thomas; Huber, Magnus & Kautzsch, Alexander (eds). The evolution of Englishes. The dynamic model and beyond. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1-20.
- Huber, Magnus. "Stylistic and sociolinguistic variation in Schneider’s Nativization Phase. T-affrication and relativization in Ghanaian English". In: Buschfeld, Sarah; Hoffmann, Thomas; Huber, Magnus & Kautzsch, Alexander (eds). The evolution of Englishes. The dynamic model and beyond. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 86-106.XXX
2013
- Huber, Magnus. "Ghanaian Pidgin English". In: Michaelis, Susanne Maria; Maurer, Philippe; Haspelmath, Martin & Magnus Huber (eds.) Survey of pidgin and creole languages. Vol 1: English-based and Dutch-based languages. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 167-175.
- Huber, Magnus. "Ghanaian Pidgin English language structure dataset". In: Michaelis, Susanne Maria; Maurer, Philippe; Haspelmath, Martin; Huber, Magnus (eds.), Melanie Revis & Bradley Taylor (collabs.). Atlas of pidgin and creole language structures online. München: Max Planck Digital Library.
- Huber, Magnus & Joybrato Mukherjee "Corpus Linguistics and Variation in English: Focus on Non-Native Englishes. Introduction". In: Huber, Magnus & Joybrato Mukherjee (eds.). Corpus linguistics and variation in English. Focus on non-native Englishes. (Varieng - Studies in Variation, Contacts and Change in English). http://www.helsinki.fi/varieng/journal/volumes/13
- Huber, Magnus & the APiCS Consortium. 13 feature articles in: Michaelis, Susanne; Maurer, Philippe; Haspelmath, Martin & Magnus Huber (eds.), Melanie Revis & Bradley Taylor (collabs.). 2013. The atlas of pidgin and creole language structures. Oxford: Oxford University Press:
- "Chapter 1: Order of subject, object and verb", 1-5
- "Chapter 2: Order of Possessor and Possessum", 6-9
- "Chapter 3: Order of Adjective and Noun", 10-13
- "Chapter 4: Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase", 14-17
- "Chapter 109: Pequenino", 436-439
- "Chapter 110: Save", 440-443
- "Chapter 111: 'Tears'", 444-447
- "Chapter 112: 'Hand' and 'arm'", 448-451
- "Chapter 113: 'Finger' and 'toe'", 452-455
- "Chapter 114: 'Body hair' and 'feather'", 456-459
- "Chapter 115: 'Hear' and 'smell'", 460-463
- "Chapter 116: 'Green' and 'blue'", 464-467
- "Chapter 117: Female and Male Animals", 468-471.
2012
- Huber, Magnus. "Syntactic and variational complexity in British and Ghanaian English. Relative clause formation in the written parts of the International Corpus of English". In: Kortmann, Bernd & Szmrecyani, Benedikt (eds.) Linguistic complexity: Second language acquisition, indigenization, contact. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 218-242.
- Huber, Magnus. "Ghanaian English". In: Kortmann, Bernd (ed.) The Mouton World Atlas of Variation in English: Grammar. Berlin/ New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 382-393.
- Huber, Magnus. "Ghanaian Pidgin". In: Kortmann, Bernd (ed.) The Mouton World Atlas of Variation in English: Grammar. Berlin/ New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 394-409
- Huber, Magnus. "Regional profile: Africa". In: Kortmann, Bernd (ed.) The Mouton World Atlas of Variation in English: Grammar. Berlin/ New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 806-823.
- Huber, Magnus & Thorsten Brato. "English in Africa". In: Hickey, Raymond (ed.) Areal features of the anglophone world. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 161-185.
- Huber, Magnus & Joybrato Mukherjee "Introduction: Corpus linguistics and variation in English". In: Huber, Magnus & Joybrato Mukherjee (eds.). Corpus linguistics and variation in English. Theory and description. Proceedings from the 31st ICAME Conference, Giessen, 26-30 May 2010. (Language and Computers). Amsterdam: Rodopi,1-3
2011
- Huber, Magnus. "Ghanaian English language structure dataset". In: Kortmann, Bernd & Lunkenheimer, Kerstin (eds.) The Electronic World Atlas of Variation in English: Grammar. München/Berlin: Max Planck Digital Library in cooperation with Mouton de Gruyter.
- Huber, Magnus. "Ghanaian Pidgin language structure dataset". In: Kortmann, Bernd & Lunkenheimer, Kerstin (eds.) The Electronic World Atlas of Variation in English: Grammar. München/Berlin: Max Planck Digital Library in cooperation with Mouton de Gruyter.
2010
- Huber, Magnus. "Trial proceedings as a source of spoken English. A critical evaluation based on the Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913". Anglistentag 2009 Klagenfurt. Proceedings. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 65-78.
2008
- Huber, Magnus. "Lingua Franca in West Africa? An evaluation of the sociohistorical and metalinguistic evidence". In: Cardoso, Hugo; Selbach, Rachel & van den Berg, Margot (eds.) On Gradual Creolization: Studies celebrating Jacques Arends. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
2007
- Huber, Magnus & Hackert, Stephanie. "Gullah in the diaspora: Historical and linguistic evidence from the Bahamas". Diachronica 24: 279–325.
- Huber, Magnus. "The Old Bailey Proceedings, 1674-1834. Evaluating and annotating a corpus of 18th- and 19th-century spoken English". In: Meurman-Solin, Anneli & Nurmi, Arja (eds.) Annotating Variation and Change (Studies in Variation, Contacts and Change in English 1).
2006
- Huber, Magnus. "Anglophone West Africa/Das anglophone Westafrika". In: Ammon, Ulrich; Dittmar, Norbert; Mattheier, Klaus & Trudgill, Peter (eds.) Sociolinguistics. An international handbook of the science of language and society. 2nd edition, vol. 3. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1957-1964.
2004
- Huber, Magnus. "The Nova Scotia-Sierra Leone connection. New evidence on an early variety of African American Vernacular English in the diaspora". In: Escure, Geneviève and Armin Schwegler (eds.) Creoles, contact, and language change. Linguistic and social implications. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 67-95.
- Huber, Magnus. "Ghanaian English: phonology". In: Kortmann, Bernd and Edgar W. Schneider (eds.) A handbook of varieties of English. A Multimedia Reference Tool. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Vol. 1: Phonology, 842-865.
- Huber, Magnus & Kari Dako. "Ghanaian English: morphology and syntax". In: Kortmann, Bernd and Edgar W. Schneider (eds.) A handbook of varieties of English. A Multimedia Reference Tool. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Vol. 2: Morphology and Syntax, 854-865.
- Huber, Magnus. "Ghanaian Pidgin English: phonology". In: Kortmann, Bernd and Edgar W. Schneider (eds.) A handbook of varieties of English. A Multimedia Reference Tool. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Vol. 1: Phonology, 866-873.
- Huber, Magnus. "Ghanaian Pidgin English: morphology and syntax". In: Kortmann, Bernd and Edgar W. Schneider (eds.) A handbook of varieties of English. A Multimedia Reference Tool. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Vol. 2: Morphology and Syntax, 866-878.
2003
- Huber, Magnus. "The corpus of English in south-east Wales and its synchronic and diachronic implications". In: Tristram, Hildegard (ed.) The Celtic Englishes III: Interdisciplinary approaches. Heidelberg: C. Winter, 183-200.
- Huber, Magnus. "Verbal reduplication in Ghanaian Pidgin English. Origins, forms, and functions". In: Kouwenberg, Silvia (ed.) Twice as meaningful. Reduplication in Pidgins, Creoles and other Contact Languages. London: Battlebridge, 139-54.
2001
- Huber, Magnus & Philip Baker. "Atlantic, Pacific, and world-wide features in English-lexicon contact languages". English World-Wide 22 (2): 157-208.
2000
- Huber, Magnus. "Restructuring in vitro? Evidence from early Krio". In: Neumann-Holzschuh, Ingrid and Schneider, Edgar (eds.) Degrees of restructuring in creole languages. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 275-307.
- Huber, Magnus & Philip Baker. "Constructing new pronominal systems from the Atlantic to the Pacific". Linguistics 38. Special Issue: Creoles, Pidgins, and sundry languages: Essays in honor of Pieter Seuren. Ed. Jacques Arends, 833-66.
1999
- Huber, Magnus. "Atlantic English Creoles and the Lower Guinea Coast: a case against Afrogenesis". In: Huber, Magnus & Parkvall, Mikael (eds.), 81-110.
- Huber, Magnus. "On the origin and diffusion of Atlantic English Creoles: First attestations from Krio". In: Baker, Philip & Bruyn, Adrienne (eds.) St Kitts and the Atlantic Creoles. London: University of Westminster Press, 365-78.
1998
- Huber, Magnus. "Afro-European linguistic encounters on the Lower Guinea Coast". International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World, Harvard University, Working Paper Series, August 1998.
1997
- Huber, Magnus. "'Dat tree be white man chop': on the Story of Genesis in West African Pidgin English". The Carrier Pidgin 25 (3): 4-6, 38-43.
- Huber, Magnus. "Special report: PACE in West Africa". Pidgins and Creoles in Education Newsletter 8: 3-4.
1996
- Huber, Magnus & Manfred Görlach. "Texts: West African Pidgin English". English World-Wide 17: 239-258.
- Huber, Magnus. "The grammaticalization of aspect markers in Ghanaian Pidgin English". In: Baker, Philip & Syea, Anand (eds.) Changing meanings, changing functions. Papers related to grammaticalization in contact languages. London: University of Westminster Press, 53-70.
- Huber, Magnus. "Ghanaian Pidgin English: a preliminary consideration of its position among West African Pidgin Englishes. Evidence from its relativization strategies". In: Véronique, Daniel (ed.) Matériaux pour l'étude des classes grammaticales dans les languages créoles. Aix-en-Provence: Publications de l'Université de Provence, 285-303.
1995
- Huber, Magnus. "Ghanaian Pidgin English: an overview". English World-Wide 16: 215-249.
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Reviews
- Reviews
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2004
- "Hans-Georg Wolf: English in Cameroon. Contributions to the Sociology of Language, 85. Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2001". Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 19 (1): 207-210
2001
- "Barbara A. Fennell: Language, literature, and the negotiation of identity: Foreign Worker German in the Federal Republic of Germany. University of North Carolina Studies in the Germanic languages and literatures series, 119. Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 1997". Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 16 (2): 370-373.
- "Ayo Bamgbose, ed. Sociolinguistics in West Africa. (International Journal of the Sociology of Language 141.) Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2000". English World-Wide 22 (1): 129-133.
- "Jacques Arends and Matthias Perl, eds. Early Suriname creole texts: a collection of 18th-century Sranan and Saramaccan documents. Frankfurt (Main): Vervuert". Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 16: 178-182.
2000
- "Peter Mühlhäusler, ed. Papers in pidgin and creole linguistics No. 5. (Pacific Linguistics A-91). Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, 1998". English World-Wide 21: 164-167.
- "Anna Shnukal Broken. An introduction to the creole language of Torres Strait. (Pacific Linguistics C-107). Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, reprint 1998". English World-Wide 21: 163-164.
1998
- "Adrienne Bruyn Grammaticalization in creoles: the development of determiners and relative clauses in Sranan. Amsterdam: IFOTT". The Carrier Pidgin 26: 19-21.
1997
- "Nicholas Faraclas Nigerian Pidgin (Descriptive Grammars). London: Routledge". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 60: 605-06.
1996
- "Philip Baker, ed. From Contact to Creole and Beyond (Westminster Creolistics Series, 1). London: University of Westminster Press". English World-Wide 17: 150-152.
Presentations
- Presentations
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2020
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The Old Bailey Corpus and its potential for the study of Late Modern English
Englische Sprachwissenschaft, Neuphilologisches Institut, Universität Würzburg 25 January 2020
2019
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Investigating language change in Late Modern English - The Old Bailey Corpus
Englische Sprachwissenschaft, Philologisch-historische Fakultät, Universität Augsburg, 5 July 2019
2016
- Introducing the Old Bailey Corpus, version 2.0
Historical Corpus Linguistics: Methods and Applications, Saarbrücken, 16-17 June 2016
2015
- 1. Language planning and attitudes towards Pidgin English in the German colony of Cameroon (with Viveka Velupillai)
2. The Database of Early Pidgin and Creole Texts (DEPiCT) (with Viveka Velupillai)
9th Workshop of the Colonial Linguistics Research Group, University of Klagenfurt, 30-31 March 2015 - CLARIN-Integration des Old Bailey Corpus
CLARIN-D Konsortiumstreffen, Braunschweig, 23-24 March 2015 - Creoles and sign languages in comparison with non-creole spoken languages. A preliminary survey (with Viveka Velupillai)
Tenth Creolistics Workshop, Aarhus University, Denmark, 8 April 2015 - Variation in South Wales Coalfield English. Rhoticity and the realization of the FACE and GOAT vowels
36th Conference of the International Computer Archive for Modern and Medieval English (ICAME), Trier, 27-31 May 2015 - Introducing the Database of Early Pidgin and Creole Texts (DEPiCT): Language attitudes and language planning in colonial German New Guinea (with Damaris Neuhof & Viveka Velupillai)
Meeting of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Languages, Graz, 7-9 July 2015 - Early recordings of Ghanaian English. A variationist approach to the phonological history of an Outer Circle variety
Department of English, University of Ghana, 2 September 2015 - Early recordings of Ghanaian English. A variationist approach to the phonological history of an Outer Circle variety
Department of English, University of Cape Coast, Ghana, 6 September 2015 - Die Database of Early Pidgin and Creole Texts (DEPiCT): Spracheinstellungen und Sprachplanung im kolonialen Deutsch-Neuguinea (with Viveka Velupillai)
Workshop “Deutsche Sprachspuren im Pazifik. Dokumentation und linguistische Analyse”, Mannheim, 24 November 2015
2014
- Stylistic variation in an emerging New English. Evidence from ICE-Ghana
35th Conference of the International Computer Archive for Modern and Medieval English (ICAME), Nottingham, UK, 30 April-04 May 2014 - Cleft constructions in 18th and 19th century spoken English. A historical sociolinguistic study based on the Old Bailey Corpus
International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICHEL) 18, Leuven, Belgium, 14-18 July 2014 - The Old Bailey Corpus, 1720-1913. A sociohistorical corpus of spoken English.
Department of English, Uppsala University, Sweden, 20 November 2014
2013
- Das Pidginenglische in den deutschen Kolonien. Quellen, Methoden und Erkenntnisse
Ringvorlesung "Sprache und Kolonialismus", Universität Bremen, 15 Mai 2013 - 1. An innovative web interface for the 14-million-word Old Bailey Corpus, 1720-1913 (with Magnus Nissel)
2. Taboo language and swearing in 18th and 19th century English. A diachronic study based on the Old Bailey Corpus (with Bianca Widlitzki)
34th Conference of the International Computer Archive for Modern and Medieval English (ICAME), Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 22-26 May 2013 - Der Angeklagte hat das Wort. Das gesprochene Englisch in den Protokollen des Londoner Strafgerichtshofs Old Bailey
Ringvorlesung "Historische Mündlichkeit", Universität Kiel, 11 Juni 2013 - A variationist approach to the phonological history of an Outer Circle variety: Early recordings from Ghana
International Congress of Linguistics 2013, Geneva, Switzerland. Session: Sociolinguistics and multilingualism, 22.-27. July 2013 - The Old Bailey Corpus. Investigating spoken English in th 18th and 19th centuries
Department of English, University of Ghana, 23 August 2013
Department of English, University of Cape Coast, 3 September 2013
2012
- The Old Bailey Corpus: spoken English in the 18th and 19th Centuries. The use of historical court records in the investigation of language change
Digital History Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, 21 February 2012. - German colonial sources and the history of Pidgin English. A first analysis of the material relating to German New Guinea in the Deutsche Kolonialbibliothek (with Viveka Velupillai)
7. Internationale Konferenz für Missionarslinguistik, Universität Bremen, 28 February - 2 March 2012 - Introducing the Database of Early Pidgin and Creole Texts, DEPiCT (with Viveka Velupillai)
Ninth Creolistics Workshop: Contact languages in a global context: past and present, Aarhus University, Denmark, 11-13 April 2012 - Sprachenpolitik und Spracheinstellungen gegenüber dem Pidgin-Englischen in den deutschen Kolonien
Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim, 20 April 2012 - Existential sentences with relative clauses in 18th and 19th century English. A diachronic study based on the Old Bailey Corpus
33rd Conference of the International Computer Archive for Modern and Medieval English (ICAME), Leuven, Belgium, 30 May - 3 June 2012 - Russen und Tataren - Sprachenpolitik in der Russischen Föderation. Kurzkommentar aus anglistischer Sicht
Russland-Woche, Gießen, 11-15 June 2012
2011
- Factors conditioning the choice of relativizers in 18th and 19th century English. A diachronic study based on the Old Bailey Corpus
32nd Conference of the International Computer Archive for Modern and Medieval English (ICAME), Oslo, Norway, 1-5 June 2011 - New ways of analysing the history of varieties of English. Early Highlife recordings from Ghana (with Sebastian Schmidt)
Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English – "Methods Past & Current. Methods of Study in Corpus Linguistics, Varieties, Dialects and Standard English", Boston, USA, 17-21 June 2011 - German colonial sources and the history of West African Pidgin English. A first analysis of the holdings of the Deutsche Kolonialbibliothek (with Viveka Velupillai)
Meeting of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Languages, Accra, Ghana, 2-16 August 2011 - Substrate traces, superstrate traces and universals in Atlantic pidgins and creoles. Findings based on the Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures with a special focus on Africa (with Susanne Michaelis, Martin Haspelmath and Philippe Maurer)
Meeting of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Languages, Accra, Ghana, 2-16 August 2011 - Investigating the history of Pidgin English. Early Highlife recordings from Ghana (with Sebastian Schmidt)
Meeting of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Languages, Accra, Ghana, 2-16 August 2011
2010
- Testing the sociolinguistic potential of the Old Bailey Corpus: negative and auxiliary contractions
Workshop "Investigating Earlier Spoken English. Papers based on the Old Bailey Corpus", 31st Conference of the International Computer Archive for Modern and Medieval English (ICAME), Gießen, Germany, 27-31 May 2010 - Comparing contact languages world-wide. Findings based on the Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures (with Susanne Michaelis, Martin Haspelmath and Philippe Maurer)
18th biennial conference of the Society for Caribbean Linguistics: Caribbean languages and popular culture, Barbados, 9-13 August 2010
2009
- Comparative evidence in the search for the elusive Virginia Creole (with Linden Müller)
Eighth Creolistics Workshop: Pidgins and creoles in a comparative perspective, University of Gießen, 2-4 April 2009 - More news from Old Bailey. The development of cleft constructions in the 18th and 19th centuries
30th Conference of the International Computer Archive for Modern and Medieval English (ICAME), Lancaster, UK, 27-31 May 2009 - Using the WWW to investigate language change in progress: theoretical and methodological considerations
Web as Culture, Gießen, 16-18 July 2009 - German colonial sources and the history of Pidgin English. A first analysis of the holdings of the Deutsche Kolonialbibliothek
Meeting of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Languages, Köln, 11-14 August 2009 - Trial proceedings as a source of spoken English. A critical evaluation based on the Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913
Anglistentag 2009, Klagenfurt, Austria, 20-23 September 2009 - From Freetown along the West African coast. The role of Kru labourers in the spread of Krio and West African Pidgin English
Workshop "Suriname and West African Pidgin English: Trans-Atlantic connections", Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 19 October 2009 - Calculating pidgin and creole affinities. A statistical approach based on the APiCS data
Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Structures Conference, Leipzig, 5-9 November 2009
2008
- The African Diaspora reversed: population movement and the trans-Atlantic Creole link
Workshop "Sprache – Literatur – Migration", Gießen, 16-18 January 2008 - Spelling variation as a key to sound change in the history of English: A corpus linguistic approach
29th Conference of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME), Ascona, Switzerland, 14-18 May 2008 - Workshop on the Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures
Meeting of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Languages, Cayenne, 28-31 July 2008 - Ethno-linguistic variation in the emergence of Ghanaian English
Seminar, Department of English, University of Ghana, 26 September 2008 - Ethno-phonological variation in the development of ESL varieties. The case of English in Ghana
Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English – "The Linguistics of English: Setting the Agenda", Freiburg, 8-11 October 2008 - The emergence of social varieties in Ghanaian English (with Thorsten Brato)
Accents 2008, Lódz, Poland, 12-14 December 2008
2007
- News from Old Bailey. The development of negative interrogatives in a corpus of spoken English, 1674-1834
28th conference of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME), Stratford-upon-Avon, 23-27 May 2007 - Liberian Krus and the spread of West African Pidgin English. A sociohistorical approach with special focus on Ghana
Section d'anglais, Université de Lausanne, 5 June 2007 - Predicate markers in Atlantic English Creoles? A look at West African Pidgin Englishes
Meeting of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Languages, Amsterdam, 18-20 June 2007 - Emerging norms: phonological variability, focussing and the birth of Ghanaian English
International Association for World Englishes 13th Annual Conference: "World Englishes: Problems – Properties – Prospects", Regensburg, 4-6 October 2007 - Phonological processes in the emergence of ESL standard accents in the outer circle
Accents 2007, Lódz, Poland, 3-5 December 2007 - Creole trans-plantation. The migration of the Black Loyalists
3. Konferenz zur Dynamik mobilisierter Kulturen: "Migrationslinguistik", Potsdam, 29-30 November 2007
2006
- English in South-East Wales: History and Characteristics
Institute of English Studies, University of Lódz, Poland, 21 March 2006 - The Old Bailey Proceedings: Compiling a Corpus of Spoken English, 1674-1834
Institute of English Studies, University of Lódz, Poland, 21 March 2006 - "I live for try" – in search of grammaticalization and complexity in early Pidgin Englishes
Seventh Creolistics Workshop: Simplicity and complexity in pidgins and creoles, University of Gießen, 6-8 April 2006 - Identifying, tagging, and analyzing spoken English in the Proceedings of the Old Bailey
27th conference of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME), Helsinki, 24-28 May 2006 - The Old Bailey Corpus, 1674-1834: Spoken language at the transition from Early Modern English to Modern English
27th conference of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME), Helsinki, 24-28 May 2006 - The role of Kru labourers in the origin and spread of West African Pidgin English
Department of English, University of Ghana, Legon, 22 September 2006 - Atlantic, Pacific, and World-Wide features in English-Lexicon Contact Languages
Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Dokuz Eylül University, Izmir, Turkey, 2 and 3 October 2006 - The Gullah-Sierra Leone/Bahamas Connection
Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Dokuz Eylül University, Izmir, Turkey, 2 and 3 October 2006 - Standard- und Nicht-Standardvarietäten des Englischen im Bildungssektor anglophoner Länder
Ringvorlesung Educational Linguistics, Fachbereich 05 Sprache, Literatur, Kultur, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, 5 December 2006
2005
- The role of adstrates in the development of Atlantic English Creoles
Creole language structure between substrates and superstrates, Leipzig, 3-5 June 2005
2004
- Gullah in the diaspora: Linguistic evidence from the Bahamas and Sierra Leone (with Stephanie Hackert)
Meeting of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Languages, Curaçao, 11-15 August 2004 - The relationship between St Helena English and both Atlantic and Pacific Pidgins and Creoles: an update of the Baker & Huber list of world-wide features
Westminster Creolistics Workshop: Diachronic Studies and Theories of Creolization, University of Westminster, London, UK, 15-17 April 2004
2003
- Phonological variation in Ghanaian Pidgin English: L1-influence vs. community norm
Second International Workshop on the Phonology and Morphology of Creole Languages, Universität Siegen, 8.-10. Oktober 2003 - The development of an English dialect in the South Wales Coalfield: Variation and homogeneity
ICLaVE, Uppsala University, 12-14 June 2003
2002
- World-wide patterns in four centuries of Pidgin English
ACLC, Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication, University of Amsterdam, 25 October 2002 - English in Ghana or Ghanaian English? (with Kari Dako)
Seminar on English in Ghana, University of Ghana, 9 August 2002 - Liberian migrant workers and West African Pidgin English
World English Symposium, Universität zu Köln, 12 July 2002 - The corpus of English in south-east Wales: the origins and development of a dialect Kolloquium "Recent Research in English Linguistics", Universität Regensburg, 20 June 2002
- Atlantic, Indo-Pacific, and world-wide features in French-lexicon Pidgins and Creoles (with Philip Baker)
Internationales Symposium "Journées créoles et francophones", Universität Regensburg, 7-9 March 2002
2001
- The corpus of English in south-east Wales and its synchronic and diachronic implications
Third Colloquium on the Celtic Englishes "The Celtic Englishes: Interdisciplinary Approaches", Universität Potsdam, 20-22 September 2001 - "If me die, me die, had rather die in me own Countrey than this cold place". The Nova Scotia-Sierra Leone connection
SPCL, Coimbra, 26-27 June 2001 - The language of Antera Duke's diary: evidence of early West African Pidgin English?
Workshop on Pidgins: Their Nature and Significance, University of Westminster, 19-21 April 2001 - World-wide features in early English-lexicon contact languages: the nature of the pidginization process in the 17th and 18th centuries (with Philip Baker) Workshop on Pidgins: Their Nature and Significance, University of Westminster, 19-21 April 2001
- Forms and functions of English in Ghana
Soziolinguistentag "Dynamics of non-standard varieties", Universität Heidelberg, 10 February 2001
2000
- Ghanaisches Pidginenglisch: Geschichte und Struktur
Guest lecture, Institut für Afrikanistik, Universität zu Köln, 21 June 2000 - Atlantic, Pacific, and world-wide features in English-lexicon contact languages
Kolloquium "Recent Research in English Linguistics", Universität Regensburg, 8 June 2000 - The position of English and Pidgin English in West Africa
Guest lecture, Institut für englische Sprachwissenschaft, TU Chemnitz, 31 May 2000 - Atlantic, Pacific, and world-wide features
SPCL, Chicago, 7-8 January 2000
1999
- Towards a history of Kru Pidgin English
SPCL, Aix-en-Provence, 24-29 June 1999 - Ghanaian Pidgin English
Kolloquium "Recent Research in English Linguistics", Universität Regensburg, 10 June 1999 - Verbal reduplication as a means of expressing nominal plurality - the development of formal concord? Evidence from West African Pidgin English
4th Westminster Creolistics Workshop, University of Westminister, 9-11 April 1999 - Pidgins and Creoles
Guest lecture Englisches Seminar, Universität Bonn, 22 January 1999
1998
- Constructing new pronominal systems from the Atlantic to the Pacific (with Philip Baker)
Twelfth Biennial Conference of the Society for Caribbean Linguistics, St Lucia, 19-22 August 1998 - Afro-European linguistic encounters on the Lower Guinea Coast
International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World, 1500-1800: "Cultural Encounters in Atlantic Societies, 1500-1800". Cambridge, MA, 10-21 August 1998 - Restructuring in vitro: evidence from early Krio
International Symposium Degrees of Restructuring in Creole Languages, Universität Regensburg, 24-27 June 1998 - The origin and development of Krio: new linguistic and sociohistorical evidence
SPCL, New York, 9-10 January 1998
1997
- The history of West African Pidgin English: on the role of anglophone overseas jargon and New World Creoles in the development of restructured Englishes in West Africa
Guest lecture at School of Oriental and African Studies, London, 20 November 1997
1996
- Atlantic English Creoles and the Lower Guinea Coast: Afrogenesis reconsidered
Third Creolistics Workshop, University of Westminster, 29-31 March 1996
1995
- Some aspects of TMA in Ghanaian Pidgin English
Second Creolistics Workshop, University of Westminster, 28-30 April 1995
1994
- The position of 'Kru English' in Ghana: true pidgin or social dialect?
Colloque Morphologie et Syntaxe des Langues Créoles, Université de Provence, 23-25 June 1994
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