Earlier North American Englishes
Edited by Merja Kytö and Lucia Siebers
[Varieties of English Around the World, G66] 2022. viii, 261 pp.
Lucia Siebers
List of John Benjamins publications for which Lucia Siebers plays a role.
Titles
Subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Processes of Change: Studies in Late Modern and Present-Day English
Edited by Sandra Jansen and Lucia Siebers
[Studies in Language Variation, 21] 2019. vii, 263 pp.
Subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
World Englishes – Problems, Properties and Prospects: Selected papers from the 13th IAWE conference
Edited by Thomas Hoffmann and Lucia Siebers
[Varieties of English Around the World, G40] 2009. xix, 436 pp.
Subjects English linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
2022 Earlier North American Englishes: Recent advances and future prospects Earlier North American Englishes, Kytö, Merja and Lucia Siebers (eds.), pp. 1–18 | Chapter
2019 Chapter 10. ‘[T]his is all answer soon’: African American vernacular letters from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Keeping in Touch: Emigrant letters across the English-speaking world, Hickey, Raymond (ed.), pp. 213–237 | Chapter
This chapter examines data from the Corpus of Older African American Letters from which two types sets of letters are in focus. The first set of letters was written at the end of the eighteenth in Rhode Island and represent the oldest records by African Americans themselves. While little is known… read more
2019 Chapter 8. African American English in nineteenth-century Liberia: Processes of change in a transported dialect Processes of Change: Studies in Late Modern and Present-Day English, Jansen, Sandra and Lucia Siebers (eds.), pp. 139–156 | Chapter
This chapter investigates African American English as it was transported to Liberia in the nineteenth century based on vernacular Liberian letters compiled in the Corpus of Older African American Letters. The analysis focuses in particular on the individual variation in the verbal paradigm of an… read more
2010 An abundant harvest to the philologer’? Jeremiah Goldswain, Thomas Shone and nineteenth-century South African English Varieties of English in Writing: The written word as linguistic evidence, Hickey, Raymond (ed.), pp. 263–294 | Article
This article examines two early sources for nineteenth century South African English, Jeremiah Goldswain’s Chronicle and the Journal of Thomas Shone. Their writings provide evidence for the vernacular of the 1820s settlers and can be considered as representing different stages on the non-standard… read more
2009 Introduction World Englishes – Problems, Properties and Prospects: Selected papers from the 13th IAWE conference, Hoffmann, Thomas and Lucia Siebers (eds.), pp. xv–xx | Miscellaneous