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.

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

Ghanaian Pidgin English in its West African Context: A sociohistorical and structural analysis

Magnus Huber

[Varieties of English Around the World, G24] 1999. xviii, 322 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)

Subjects Creole studies | Electronic/Multimedia Products | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

Articles

Buschfeld, Sarah, Thomas Hoffmann, Magnus Huber and Alexander Kautzsch. 2014. Introduction. The 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 birthday. The 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 English. The Evolution of Englishes: The Dynamic Model and beyond, Buschfeld, Sarah, Thomas Hoffmann, Magnus Huber and Alexander Kautzsch (eds.), pp. 86–106

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 | Article

Huber, Magnus. 2009. Lingua Franca in West Africa? An evaluation of the sociohistorical and metalinguistic evidence. Gradual Creolization: Studies celebrating Jacques Arends, Selbach, Rachel, Hugo C. Cardoso and Margot van den Berg (eds.), pp. 257–278

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 | Article

Hackert, Stephanie and Magnus Huber. 2007. Gullah in the diaspora: Historical and linguistic evidence from the Bahamas. Diachronica 24:2, pp. 279–325

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 | Article

Huber, Magnus. 2004. 4. The Nova Scotia–Sierra Leone connection: New evidence on an early variety of African American Vernacular English in the diaspora. Creoles, Contact, and Language Change: Linguistic and social implications, Escure, Geneviève and Armin Schwegler (eds.), pp. 67–95

Chapter

Huber, Magnus. 2004. Review of Wolf (2001): English in Cameroon. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 19:1, pp. 207–210

Review

Baker, Philip and Magnus Huber. 2001. Atlantic, Pacific, and world-wide features in English-lexicon contact languages. English World-Wide 22:2, pp. 157–208

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 | Article