Magnus Huber

List of John Benjamins publications for which Magnus Huber plays a role.

Titles

The Evolution of Englishes: The Dynamic Model and beyond

Edited by Sarah Buschfeld, Thomas Hoffmann, Magnus Huber and Alexander Kautzsch

[Varieties of English Around the World, G49] 2014. xviii, 513 pp.
Subjects Contact Linguistics | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Multilingualism | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics

Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives on Contact Languages

Edited by Magnus Huber and Viveka Velupillai

[Creole Language Library, 32] 2007. xii, 370 pp.
Subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Historical linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Subjects Creole studies | Electronic/Multimedia Products | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Buschfeld, Sarah, Thomas Hoffmann, Magnus Huber and Alexander Kautzsch 2014 IntroductionThe Evolution of Englishes: The Dynamic Model and beyond, Buschfeld, Sarah, Thomas Hoffmann, Magnus Huber and Alexander Kautzsch (eds.), pp. 1–18 | Article
Buschfeld, Sarah, Thomas Hoffmann, Magnus Huber and Alexander Kautzsch 2014 Editors’ preface: The evolution of Englishes: In honour of Edgar Schneider on the occasion of his 60th birthdayThe Evolution of Englishes: The Dynamic Model and beyond, Buschfeld, Sarah, Thomas Hoffmann, Magnus Huber and Alexander Kautzsch (eds.), pp. xi–xviii | Miscellaneous
Huber, Magnus 2014 Stylistic and sociolinguistic variation in Schneider’s Nativization Phase: T-affrication and relativization in Ghanaian EnglishThe Evolution of Englishes: The Dynamic Model and beyond, Buschfeld, Sarah, Thomas Hoffmann, Magnus Huber and Alexander Kautzsch (eds.), pp. 86–106 | Article
Taking educated Ghanaian English (GhE) as an example, this article considers the place of stylistic and sociolinguistic variation in Schneider’s (2003, 2007) Dynamic Model of the evolution of New Englishes. The study examines variation in one phonological and one morphosyntactic variable,… read more
Huber, Magnus 2009 Lingua Franca in West Africa? An evaluation of the sociohistorical and metalinguistic evidenceGradual Creolization: Studies celebrating Jacques Arends, Selbach, Rachel, Hugo C. Cardoso and Margot van den Berg (eds.), pp. 257–278 | Article
This article investigates the nature of 15th - 18th century Afro-European linguistic contacts on the Lower Guinea Coast of Africa with the aim of establishing whether the Portuguese could have spread the Mediterranean Lingua Franca to Lower Guinea. There is solid evidence that a Portuguese-lexified… read more
Hackert, Stephanie and Magnus Huber 2007 Gullah in the diaspora: Historical and linguistic evidence from the BahamasDiachronica 24:2, pp. 279–325 | Article
The status of Gullah and Bahamian Creole English (BahCE) within the Atlantic English creoles and their historical relationship with African American Vernacular English (AAVE) have long been a matter of discussion. It was assumed that Gullah and BahCE are ‘sister’ varieties sharing an immediate… read more
Baker, Philip and Magnus Huber 2001 Atlantic, Pacific, and world-wide features in English-lexicon contact languagesEnglish World-Wide 22:2, pp. 157–208 | Article
This article analyzes the earliest known attestations of 302 lexical, functional, and grammatical features in 13 English-lexicon contact languages in the Atlantic and the Pacific. The main aims are (i) to shed light on the historical relationships between the individual varieties, (ii) to learn… read more
Huber, Magnus 2000 Restructuring in vitro? Evidence from Early KrioDegrees of Restructuring in Creole Languages, Neumann-Holzschuh, Ingrid and Edgar W. Schneider (eds.), pp. 275–308 | Article
Huber, Magnus and Manfred Görlach † 1996 West African Pidgin EnglishEnglish World-Wide 17:2, pp. 239–258 | Article
Huber, Magnus 1995 Ghanaian Pidgin English: An OverviewEnglish World-Wide 16:2, pp. 215–249 | Article