Earlier Projects

Projects which are completed by now or which were carried out by former team members who have now moved on to other universities include the following:

• Word-Formation in New Englishes – A Corpus-Based Analysis (Biermeier)
• The Emergence of the English Native Speaker: A Chapter in Nineteenth-Century Linguistic Thought (Hackert)
• Urban Bahamian Creole (Hackert)
• Preposition Placement: Minimalist Program vs Construction Grammar (Hoffmann)
• Ghanaian and West African English (Huber)
• Feature Diffusion in global Pidgins and Creoles (Huber)
• The Historical Evolution of Earlier African American English (Kautzsch)
• Cuban American English (Maas)
• BLUR (Miethaner, Schneider)
• Quantitative methods in dialect geography (Schneider)
• St. Helena English (Schreier)
• New Zealand English (Schreier)
• Phonotactic Variation and Change: The Synchronic and Diachronic Dimension of Consonant Cluster Reduction in English (Schreier)
• Morphosyntax in Black South African English (Siebers)
• Iconicity vs. Economy in New Englishes (Steger)
• American English in South Africa (Trüb)