Thomas Biermeier
List of John Benjamins publications for which Thomas Biermeier plays a role.
Articles
2014 Compounding and Suffixation in World Englishes The Evolution of Englishes: The Dynamic Model and beyond, Buschfeld, Sarah, Thomas Hoffmann, Magnus Huber and Alexander Kautzsch (eds.), pp. 312–330 | Article
This paper investigates compounding and suffixation across twelve varieties of English. First, I will show that second language varieties in Asia and Africa use the same frequency patterns as first language varieties. Especially Asian Englishes display a wide range of different types, in many cases… read more
2009 Word-formation in New Englishes: Properties and trends World Englishes – Problems, Properties and Prospects: Selected papers from the 13th IAWE conference, Hoffmann, Thomas and Lucia Siebers (eds.), pp. 331–350 | Article
This article reports on a corpus-based study (of the International Corpus of English ICE) comparing seven new varieties of English as to their word-formation properties and trends. First, the article outlines different methods of determining the extent of use and productivity rate of any given… read more