Stephanie Hackert

List of John Benjamins publications for which Stephanie Hackert plays a role.

Journal

Edited by Marianne Hundt and Anne Schröder

ISSN 0172-8865 | E-ISSN 1569-9730

Book series

Varieties of English Around the World (VEAW)

Title

Urban Bahamian Creole: System and variation

Stephanie Hackert

[Varieties of English Around the World, G32] 2004. xiv, 256 pp.

Subjects Creole studies | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

Articles

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Hackert, Stephanie 2019 Chapter 12. Memoirs from Central America: A linguistic analysis of personal recollections of West Indian laborers in the construction of the Panama Canal Keeping in Touch: Emigrant letters across the English-speaking world, Hickey, Raymond (ed.), pp. 261–285 | Chapter

This chapter introduces and linguistically evaluates a hitherto unexplored source of earlier Caribbean vernacular English. It comprises more than one hundred letters written in 1963 by former Panama Canal workers as part of a competition commemorating the 50th anniversary of the opening of the… read more

Hackert, Stephanie 2019 The perfect in English-lexifier pidgins and creoles: A comparative study Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 34:2, pp. 195–242 | Article

This study investigates the expression of perfect meanings in thirty English-lexifier pidgins and creoles or related varieties, such as African American Vernacular English or Singlish. The data were elicited with the help of sixteen sentences and a short text from Dahl’s (1985: 198–206)… read more

Hackert, Stephanie 2018 Alexander Kautzsch In memoriam Modeling World Englishes: Assessing the interplay of emancipation and globalization of ESL varieties, Deshors, Sandra C. (ed.), pp. ix–x | Miscellaneous

Hackert, Stephanie and Alexander Laube 2018 You ain’t got principle, you ain’t got nothing: Verbal negation in Bahamian Creole English World-Wide 39:3, pp. 278–308 | Article

The present study investigates the system of verbal negation in Bahamian Creole and relates it to the respective systems of historically connected varieties in North America, i.e. contemporary as well as earlier varieties of African American Vernacular English and Gullah. Building on a corpus of… read more

Hackert, Stephanie 2016 Standards of English in the Caribbean: History, attitudes, functions, features World Englishes: New theoretical and methodological considerations, Seoane, Elena and Cristina Suárez-Gómez (eds.), pp. 85–112 | Article

This paper presents a report of the state of research into standards of English in the anglophone Caribbean. It first outlines the history of educated English in the region and then turns to current language attitudes and functions. While Caribbean English-lexifier creoles are no longer overtly… read more

Hackert, Stephanie 2016 Review of Deuber (2014): English in the Caribbean: Variation, Style and Standards in Jamaica and Trinidad English World-Wide 37:2, pp. 225–230 | Review

Hackert, Stephanie and Dagmar Deuber 2015 American influence on written Caribbean English: A diachronic analysis of newspaper reportage in the Bahamas and in Trinidad and Tobago Grammatical Change in English World-Wide, Collins, Peter (ed.), pp. 389–410 | Article

This paper presents a diachronic analysis of press news reports in the Bahamas and in Trinidad and Tobago with a view to shedding light on the question of Americanisation. We analyse four corpora, one from the 1960s and one contemporary from each country. The following features are studied: (1)… read more

Hackert, Stephanie 2014 Series editor’s preface The Evolution of Englishes: The Dynamic Model and beyond, Buschfeld, Sarah, Thomas Hoffmann, Magnus Huber and Alexander Kautzsch (eds.), pp. ix–x | Miscellaneous

Hackert, Stephanie 2014 The evolution of English(es): Notes on the history of an idea The Evolution of Englishes: The Dynamic Model and beyond, Buschfeld, Sarah, Thomas Hoffmann, Magnus Huber and Alexander Kautzsch (eds.), pp. 282–300 | Article

Many of the central tenets of modern linguistics – and thus also of the study of World Englishes – have a history which goes back to the nineteenth century. This article focuses on the idea of the evolution of language(s). I will employ a discourse-historical approach to show that evolution was… read more

Deuber, Dagmar, Carolin Biewer, Stephanie Hackert and Michaela Hilbert 2012 Will and would in selected New Englishes: General and variety-specific tendencies Mapping Unity and Diversity World-Wide: Corpus-Based Studies of New Englishes, Hundt, Marianne and Ulrike Gut (eds.), pp. 77–102 | Article

This paper presents a quantitative and qualitative investigation of the use of the modal verbs will and would in six New Englishes (Fiji, Indian, Singapore, Trinidadian, Jamaican and Bahamian English), with British English considered for comparison; will/would in their future use are also compared… read more

Bruckmaier, Elisabeth and Stephanie Hackert 2011 Bahamian Standard English: A first approach English World-Wide 32:2, pp. 174–205 | Article

This article presents both quantitative and qualitative information on the orthography, lexis, and morphosyntax of Bahamian Standard English. Employing a press corpus of over 100 000 words, it aims not only at a descriptive account but also at initial answers to two research questions. First, is… read more

Hackert, Stephanie 2009 Review of Errington (2008): Linguistics in a Colonial World: A Story of Language, Meaning, and Power English World-Wide 30:3, pp. 332–337 | Review

Hackert, Stephanie 2009 A discourse-historical approach to the English native speaker World Englishes – Problems, Properties and Prospects: Selected papers from the 13th IAWE conference, Hoffmann, Thomas and Lucia Siebers (eds.), pp. 385–406 | Article

The concept of the native speaker, once viewed as “a common reference point for all branches of linguistics” (Coulmas 1981: 1), has increasingly come under criticism, particularly in connection with the study of World Englishes, where it has been pointed out that, while there may be linguistic… read more

Hackert, Stephanie 2009 Review of Mesthrie & Bhatt (2008): World Englishes: The study of new linguistic varieties Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 24:2, pp. 363–366 | Review

Hackert, Stephanie 2009 Review of Huber & Velupillai (2007): Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives on Contact Languages English World-Wide 30:1, pp. 119–122 | Review

Hackert, Stephanie and Magnus Huber 2007 Gullah in the diaspora: Historical and linguistic evidence from the Bahamas Diachronica 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

Hackert, Stephanie 2006 Oral narrative and tense in urban Bahamian Creole English Structure and Variation in Language Contact, Deumert, Ana and Stephanie Durrleman (eds.), pp. 225–242 | Chapter

This paper presents a quantitative analysis of past inflection in urban Bahamian Creole English. The variable has held a prominent position in the study of African American Vernacular English and Caribbean creoles, but whereas phonological, grammatical, and social factors have received much… read more