Corpus-linguistic projects
Early Modern English Medical Texts |
Electronic Text Edition of Depositions |
Irish English in Today’s World
Special issue of English Today, Vol. 27, No. 2
Ed. Raymond Hickey Cambridge University Press, June 2011.
Table of Contents
Present and future horizons for Irish English
RAYMOND HICKEY
Victories fastened in grammar: historical documentation of Irish English
KEVIN MCCAFFERTY
‘Irish isn't spoken here?’ Language policy and planning in Ireland
PHILIP MCDERMOTT
What is Irish Standard English?
JOHN KIRK
Grammatical variation in Irish English
KAREN CORRIGAN
The pragmatics of Irish English
ELAINE VAUGHAN and BRIAN CLANCY
Ireland in translation
MICHAEL CRONIN
Teaching and Irish English
ANNE O’KEEFFE
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Researching the Languages of Ireland
Ed. Raymond Hickey Uppsala University Press, September 2011.
Table of Contents
Irish
Raymond Hickey
Gender in Modern Irish
Graham Isaac
The designation of Old Irish as a ‘Celtic’ language
Liam MacMathúna
Earthquakes and other landscape movements
Séamus MacMathúna
Early Language Acquisition in the Celtic Languages
Erich Poppe
Latin and Latin Learning in Fifteenth-Century Ireland
Patricia Ronan
More on the Origin of Irish and Welsh Continuous Periphrasis
Arndt Wigger
On defective verbal nouns in Modern Irish
English
Karen Corrigan
The ‘Art of Making the Best Use of Bad Data’
Una Cunningham
Echoes of Irish in the English of Southwest Tyrone
Kevin McCafferty
English grammar, Celtic revenge?
Peter Siemund
It-clefts in Irish English
John Kirk
The cultural context of ICE-Ireland
Raymond Hickey
Ulster Scots in Present-day Ireland
Standards of English – Codified Varieties around the World
The current volume is concerned with the standards of English found throughout the anglophone world with how these standards arose and with their relationship to other forms of English, often in other larger countries, notably Britain or America. The history, present-day situation and status of the standard in each country / region is to be considered in a dedicated chapter by an internationally renowned scholar.
| Length | c 350 pages |
| Publication | 2012 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Table of contents
| Introduction | |
| Raymond Hickey | Standard English and standards of English |
| Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade | The codification of English in England |
| Clive Upton | Standard English in present-day England |
| Jane Stuart-Smith and John Corbett | Standard Scottish English |
| Raymond Hickey | Standard Irish English |
| William Kretzschmar and Charles Meyer | American Standard English |
| Charles Boberg | Standard Canadian English |
| Hubert Devonish and Ewart A. C. Thomas | Standards of English in the Caribbean |
| Sean Bowerman | Standard South Africa English |
| Ulrike Gut | Standards of English in West Africa |
| Josef Schmied | Standards of English in East Africa |
| Claudia Lange | Standards of English in South Asia |
| Lisa Lim and Umberto Ansaldo | Standards of English in South-East Asia |
| Felicity Cox and Sallyanne Palethorpe | Standard Australian English |
| Elizabeth Gordon | Standard New Zealand English |
| Manfred Krug and Anna Rosen | Standards of English in Malta and the Channel Islands |
| Carolin Biewer | Standards of English in the South Pacific |
| Daniel Schreier | Varieties resistant to standardisation |
Areal Features of the Anglophone World
This volume is concerned with examining features of non-standard, vernacular English which show an areal distribution, i.e. which cluster geographically across the world. Areal features are thus found in regions - no matter what size - and are shared by some if not all the varieties of English present in these regions. There may, however, be other languages interacting with English in these regions, either historically or at present, and this interaction is to be considered as well..
| Length | c 350 pages |
| Publication | 2012 |
| Publisher | Mouton de Gruyter |
Table of contents
| Raymond Hickey | Introduction: The areal distribution of varieties of English |
| Case studies | |
| David Britain | Areal features of English in England |
| Warren Maguire | Areal features of Scotland |
| Raymond Hickey | Areal features of English in Ireland |
| Matthew Gordon | Areal features of English in the United States |
| Jeffrey P. Williams | Areal features of English in the Caribbean |
| Magnus Huber and Thorsten Brato | Areal features of English in Africa |
| Umberto Ansaldo and Lisa Lim | Areal features of English in Asia |
| Pam Peters and Kate Burridge | Areal features of English in Australia and New Zealand |
| Devyani Sharma | Shared features in New Englishes |
| Feature complexes | |
| J. K. Chambers | Global features of English vernaculars |
| Daniel Schreier | Phonological inventories |
| Liselotte Anderwald | Negation in varieties of English around the world |
| Kerstin Lunkenheimer | Areal features of tense and aspect |
| Lukas Pietsch | Areal patterns of subject-verb agreement |
| Susanne Wagner | Pronominal systems |
| Peter Siemund, Georg Maier and Martin Schnweinberger | Reflexive and intensive self-forms |
| Stephan Gramley | Vocabulary |
| Klaus P. Schneider | Pragmatics |
A Dictionary of Varieties of English
| Length | c 350 pages |
| Publication | 2012 |
| Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell |
This book is a linguistic dictionary providing coverage of forms of English (varieties) in their geographic and historic context. As is obvious at first glance, the English language is found throughout the entire world both as a native language (spoken by descendants of settlers who emigrated from the British Isles in the past few centuries) and as a second language in countries which generally were former colonies of England, e.g. many states in South and South-East Asia as well as parts of Africa (these countries have a very active set of varieties which show many developments which are of linguistic interest). The term ‘variety’ covers all types of English spoken in the two groups just mentioned. There is also an historic dimension to this subject as the rise of early settler varieties, for instance in North America (in the later USA and Canada) and in the Caribbean, dates back to the early seventeenth century.
One is thus dealing with a broad range of language types characterised by various scenarios including continuity of settler English, new dialect formation, dialect mixture, bilingual situations resulting from language contact, to mention just a few.
Importantly, the study of varieties of English includes various soiolingjuistic perspectives, especially in urban settings. The development of language, triggered by factors such as class, network affiliation, ethnic grouping, is a central topic in variety studies and is reflected in the coverage of the present dictionary.
Early Modern English Medical Texts
Corpus description and studies
Irma Taavitsainen and Päivi Pahta
Software by Raymond Hickey
John Benjamins, 2010
This project was initiated by a team of colleagues at the University of Helsinki and consists of a corpus of medical texts from the early modern period. It is a sequel to the corresponding corpus dealing with Middle English medical texts (see http://www.uni-due.de/CP/related_projects.htm for details). For both projects I programmed adaptations of my general corpus-linguistic software, Corpus Presenter, see http://www.uni-due.de/CP/related_projects.htm for further information).
Link to relevant section of publisher’s website: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=Z%20160
Testifying to Language and Life in Early Modern England
An electronic text edition of depositions 1560-1760
Merja Kytö, Peter Grund and Terry Walker
Software by Raymond Hickey
John Benjamins, 2011
A comprehensive collection of court depositions forms the basis for the current project undertaken by a team of researchers associated with the University of Uppsala. An adaptation of the Corpus Presenter software (see http://www.uni-due.de/CP for further information) is supplied with the corpus to enable users to carry out powerful retrieval tasks quickly and easily.
The book with the CD containing the corpus along with the software for examining this is due to be published in May 2011.
Link to relevant section of publisher’s website: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=Z%20162
