University of Duisburg and Essen
Institute for Anglophone Studies
Campus Essen

Prof. Raymond Hickey

Chair of Linguistics

Universitätsstr.12

D-45117 Essen

Germany

Tel: +49 0201 183 3441

Fax: +49 0201 183 6507

email: raymond.hickey@uni-due.de

3.6.1954	Born in Dublin, Republic of Ireland.
1958-1964	Primary School, Waterpark College, Waterford.
1965-1971	Secondary School, De La Salle, Waterford.
1971-1975	Study at Trinity College, Dublin (M.A. in German and Italian)
1976	Foreign language assistant at the English Department of the University of Kiel, Germany.
1979	Lectureship in English linguistics at the English Department of the University of Bonn.
1980	PhD in general linguistics, University of Kiel.
1985	‘Habilitation’ (post-doctoral degree) at the University of Bonn.
1987	Associate professor at Bonn University.
1991	Full professor at the University of Munich.
1993	Offer of chair at the University of Bayreuth.
1993	Chair for English linguistics at the University of Essen accepted.
1994 –	Professor of Linguistics at the English Department.

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    Short CV of Raymond Hickey

Raymond Hickey was born in Dublin in 1954 and studied for his MA in Trinity College, Dublin and did his PhD at Kiel, Germany in 1980. He completed his second doctorate (German Habilitation) in Bonn in 1985 and has held professorial appointments at four German universities (Bonn, Munich, Bayreuth, Essen). He has travelled widely, lecturing in linguistics and has been visiting professor at a number of universities. He is currently professor of linguistics at the Department of English, Essen University, Germany.

His main research interests are computer corpus processing, extraterritorial varieties of English (especially Irish English), Dublin English and general questions of language change. In the first area he has published many books, the most recent of which is Corpus Presenter. Processing software for language analysis (including A Corpus of Irish English) (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2003). In the latter his most recent publications are A source book for Irish English (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2002), Motives for language change (Cambridge: University Press, 2003), Collecting views on language change (special issue of Language Sciences, 2002), A sound atlas of Irish English (Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2004), Legacies of colonial English (Cambridge: University Press, 2004), Dublin English. Evolution and Change (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2005), Irish English. History and present-day forms (Cambridge: University Press, 2007), The Handbook of Language Contact (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010) and Eighteenth-Century English (Cambridge: University Press, 2010). He has also published over 90 articles on various issues in linguistics and produced an electronic corpus of Irish English as well as comprehensive software for language analysis.

    Very short CV of Raymond Hickey

Raymond Hickey studied for his MA in Trinity College, Dublin and did his PhD at Kiel, Germany in 1980. He completed his second doctorate (German Habilitation) in Bonn in 1985 and has held professorial appointments at four German universities (Bonn, Munich, Bayreuth, Essen). He has travelled widely, lecturing in linguistics and has been visiting professor at a number of universities. His main research interests are computer corpus processing, extraterritorial varieties of English (especially Irish English), Dublin English and general questions of language contact, shift and change.