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Name:	Magnus Huber
Institution:	Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen
Email:	click here to access email
Homepage:	http://www.uni-giessen.de/anglistik/LING/Staff/huber/
State and/or Country:	Germany
Linguistic Field(s):	Historical Linguistics Language Documentation Sociolinguistics Text/Corpus Linguistics
Specialty:	Varieties of English, Pidgin and Creole Englishes, Sociolinguistics, Dialectology, Corpus Linguistics, Historical Linguistics
Subject Language(s):	English
Selected Publications:	1999 Ghanaian Pidgin English in its West African context: a sociohistorical and structural analysis. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 1999 Huber, Magnus & Parkvall, Mikael (eds.) Spreading the word. The issue of diffusion among the Atlantic Creoles. London: University of Westminster Press. 1996 “The grammaticalization of aspect markers in Ghanaian Pidgin English”. Baker, Philip & Syea, Anand (eds.) Changing meanings, changing functions. Papers related to grammaticalization in contact languages. London: University of Westminster Press, 53-70. “Atlantic English Creoles and the Lower Guinea Coast: a case against Afrogenesis”. Huber, Magnus & Parkvall, Mikael (eds.), 81-110. 2000a Baker, Philip and Huber, Magnus “Constructing new pronominal systems from the Atlantic to the Pacific”. Linguistics 38. Special Issue: Creoles, Pidgins, and sundry languages: Essays in honor of Pieter Seuren. Ed. Jacques Arends, 833-66. 2000b “Restructuring in vitro? Evidence from early Krio”. Neumann-Holzschuh, Ingrid and Schneider, Edgar (eds.) Degrees of Restructuring in Creole Languages. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 275-307. 2001 Baker, Philip and Huber, Magnus “Atlantic, Pacific, and world-wide features in English-lexicon contact languages”. English World-Wide 22 (2): 157-208. 2003a “Verbal reduplication in Ghanaian Pidgin English. Origins, forms, and functions”. Kouwenberg, Silvia (ed.) Twice as meaningful. Reduplication in Pidgins, Creoles and other Contact Languages. London: Battlebridge, 139-54. 2003b “The corpus of English in south-east Wales and its synchronic and diachronic implications”. Tristram, Hildegard (ed.) The Celtic Englishes III: interdisciplinary approaches. Heidelberg: C. Winter, 183-200. 2004a “The Nova Scotia–Sierra Leone connection. New evidence on an early variety of African American Vernacular English in the diaspora”. Escure, Geneviève and Schwegler, Armin (eds.) Creoles, contact, and language change. Linguistic and social implications. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 67-95. 2004b “Ghanaian English: phonology”. Kortmann, Bernd and Edgar W. Schneider (eds.) A handbook of varieties of English. A Multimedia Reference Tool. Volume 1: Phonology. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 842-865. 2004c “Ghanaian English: morphology and syntax” (with Kari Dako). Kortmann, Bernd and Edgar W. Schneider (eds.) A handbook of varieties of English. A Multimedia Reference Tool. Volume 2: Morphology and Syntax. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 854-865. 2004d “Ghanaian Pidgin English: phonology”. Kortmann, Bernd and Edgar W. Schneider (eds.) A handbook of varieties of English. A Multimedia Reference Tool. Volume 1: Phonology. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 866-873. 2004e “Ghanaian Pidgin English: morphology and syntax”. Kortmann, Bernd and Edgar W. Schneider (eds.) A handbook of varieties of English. A Multimedia Reference Tool. Volume 2: Morphology and Syntax. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 866-878. 2006 “Anglophone West Africa/Das anglophone Westafrika”. Ammon, Ulrich, Norbert Dittmar, Klaus Mattheier and Peter Trudgill (eds.) Sociolinguistics. An international handbook of the science of language and society. 2nd edition, vol. 3. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
Announced on LINGUIST :	Ghanaian Pidgin English in Its West African Context Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives on Contact Languages Corpus Linguistics and Variation in English Corpus Linguistics and Variation in English The Atlas and Survey of Pidgin and Creole Languages The Evolution of Englishes
Reviewed on LINGUIST :	The Atlas and Survey of Pidgin and Creole Languages The Evolution of Englishes
Courses Taught:	Linguistic terminology Pragmatics English in Africa Introduction to Lincuistics Discourse analysis Phonetics and Phonology The Atlantic group of Pidgins and Creoles Sociolinguistics Middle Englisch History of the Englisch language English-lexified contact languages Middle English: reading and structure Varieties of English Dialects and sociolects in the British Isles Corpus linguistics Social varieties of English World Englishes Varieties of English in America English syntax The morphology of English Variation and the history of English Varieties of English around the world (lecture) Pidgins and Creoles Sociolinguistic methods and description Dialects of British and American English Synchronic and diachronic dimensions of World Englishes (lecture) Sociolinguistics: a practical approach Principles and methods of historical linguistics Sociohistorical linguistics New approaches to the history of English (lecture) English dialects Diachronic lexicology Language contact in the history of English Pidgin and Creole Englishes, past and present (lecture) Linguistic research seminar Corpus linguistics and the history of English Morphology and word-formation



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