Lucia Siebers

List of John Benjamins publications in which Lucia Siebers is involved.

Titles

Earlier North American Englishes

Edited by Merja Kytö and Lucia Siebers

Varieties of English in the U.S. and Canada display fascinating developments from colonial times up until the twenty-first century. To throw light on the linguistics of North American Englishes and their socio-historical contexts, this volume brings together research from various traditions,… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G66] 2022. viii, 261 pp.

Processes of Change: Studies in Late Modern and Present-Day English

Edited by Sandra Jansen and Lucia Siebers

The present volume brings together leading scholars studying language change from a variety of sociolinguistic perspectives, complementing and enriching the existing literature by providing readers with a kaleidoscopic perspective of aspects of change in English from around 1700 until the present… read more

[Studies in Language Variation, 21] 2019. vii, 263 pp.

World Englishes – Problems, Properties and Prospects: Selected papers from the 13th IAWE conference

Edited by Thomas Hoffmann and Lucia Siebers

World Englishes is a vibrant research field that has attracted scholars from many different linguistic subdisciplines. Emphasizing the common ground of all research on World Englishes, the 22 articles in this collected volume, selected from more than a hundred papers presented at the 2007… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G40] 2009. xix, 436 pp.

Kytö, Merja and Lucia Siebers 2022 Earlier North American Englishes: Recent advances and future prospects Earlier North American Englishes, Kytö, Merja and Lucia Siebers (eds.), pp. 1–18 | Chapter

Siebers, Lucia 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

Siebers, Lucia 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

Siebers, Lucia 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

Hoffmann, Thomas and Lucia Siebers 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