Prof. Raymond Hickey Date: 23 Februar 2021 General Linguistics and Varieties of English Department of Anglophone Studies University of Duisburg and Essen 45141 Essen Germany email: [email protected] website: www.uni-due.de/~lan300/HICKEY.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Hickey Orcid.: 0000-0003-2354-0205 Education and academic career 2020 Adjunct Professor, University of Limerick, Irland 2020 Senior professor at the University of Duisburg-Essen. 1993 Chair for English linguistics, University of Essen. 1993 Offer of chair at the University of Bayreuth. 1991 Full professor, University of Munich. 1987 Associate professor, Bonn University. 1985 ‘Habilitation’ (post-doctoral degree), University of Bonn. 1980 PhD in general linguistics, University of Kiel. 1979 Lectureship in linguistics, English Department, University of Bonn. 1976 Foreign language assistant, English Department, University of Kiel. 1971-1975 Study at Trinity College, Dublin (M.A. in German and Italian) 1965-1971 Secondary School, De La Salle, Waterford. 1964-1965 Irish-speaking boarding school, Coláiste na Rinne, Co Waterford. 1958-1964 Primary School, Waterpark College, Waterford. 3.6.1954 Born in Dublin, Republic of Ireland. Professional activities and appointments 2020 Visiting Professor, University of Florence, Italy 2015 Visiting Professor, University of Cape Town, South Africa 2009/10 Visiting Professor, University of Helsinki, Finland 2007 Visiting Professor, University of Bergamo, Italy 2001/2 Visiting Professor, University of Innbruck, Austria 1997 Visiting Professor, University of Uppsala, Sweden Numerous guest lectures at universities in Canada, USA, Australia, South Africa, United Kingdom, Ireland, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Spain, Italy, France, The Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland, Poland, Russian Federation, China. Raymond Hickey Curriculum vitae Page 2 of 28 External examiner at various universities, e.g. University of Helsinki, University of Uppsala, University of Bergen, Université Sorbonne 3, University of Leiden. Referee for academic funding institutions in Germany (DFG, DAAD, Max Planck Gesellschaft), Belgium, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, Poland, Ireland, United Kingdom, Norway, Canada, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand. Supervisor of several PhDs theses at the Universities of Munich and Duisburg- Essen as well as universities abroad, e.g. in Norway, Sweden, Finland, Spain, France, The Netherlands. Research areas 1) Language contact, variation and change Language contact and shift, with focus on the history of the Irish language and the emergence of modern Irish English. Language variation and change, in particular the socially motivated evolution of Dublin English. 2) Eighteenth-century English and the standardisation of English The rise of prescriptivism in the context of British and Irish English. The manner in which supraregional varieties of language arise and their codification as national standards. 3) Overseas varieties of English Transportation of English during the colonial period, new dialect formation, language change under contact and shift conditions. The historical phonology of varieties of English. 4) Irish The sound structure of the modern dialects, questions of phonology from a typological point of view. Issues in Irish morphology. 5) Computer corpus processing Software for text interrogation as well as a corpus of historical Irish English texts (both published). University degrees 1) Bachelor of Arts (BA) and Master of Arts (MA) in Trinity College Dublin, Ireland (five-years of undergraduate/graduate university studies). 2) Promotion (PhD thesis). Satzstrukturen des Deutschen und Englischen, eine kontrastive Analyse im Rahmen der Dependenzgrammatik. [Sentence structures in German and English, a contrastive analysis within the framework of dependency grammar] (University of Kiel, 1980), 251 pages. 3) Habilitation (post-doctoral degree). Kontakt, Konservatismus, Konvergenz. Eine phonologische Typologie des südirischen Englischen. [Contact, conservatism, convergence. A phonological typology of southern Irish English] (University of Bonn, 1985), 463 pages. Raymond Hickey Curriculum vitae Page 3 of 28 Websites Studying the History of English: www.uni-due.de/SHE Extensive website covering all aspects of the history of English and intended for students at all stages and levels of speciality. Web address: www.uni-essen.de/SHE Studying Varieties of English: www.uni-due.de/SVE Companion website with similarly comprehensive information on varieties of English world-wide. Web address: www.uni-due.de/SVE Irish English Resource Centre: www.uni-due.de/IERC Exhaustive website with in-depth information on all aspects of Irish English (southern and northern, as well as Ulster Scots). Various relevant themes, such as language contact and shift, sociolinguistic change in present-day Ireland, are discussed in detail. Variation and Change in Dublin English: www.uni-due.de/VCDE A socilinguistically oriented website for all aspects of language variation and change in contemporary Duiblin. The website contains much media material such as sound files illustrating key features of Dublin English. English Linguistics in Essen: www.uni-due.de/ELE Extensive website with comprehensive multimedial material for students of linguistics, covering all levels, from beginners to final-year students, and all areas of linguistics. Books Monographs 1) Hickey, Raymond 2014. A Dictionary of Varieties of English. Malden, MA: Wiley- Blackwell, xxviii + 456 pages. The current dictionary provides comprehensive coverage of forms of English from recent history (since the beginning of the colonial period, c 1600) and from all anglophone locations throughout the world. The latter group includes varieties of English as a native language (spoken by descendants of settlers who emigrated from the British Isles) and as a second language in countries which generally were former colonies of England, e.g. many states in South and South-East Asia as well as parts of Africa. The historic dimension covers developments in England and the rise of early settler varieties, for instance in North America (in the later USA and Canada) and in the Caribbean, dating back to the early seventeenth century. The study of varieties of English includes various soiolingjuistic perspectives, especially in urban settings. The development of English, triggered by factors such as class, network affiliation, ethnic grouping, is reflected in the coverage of the present dictionary. Apart from over 2,000 definitions the dictionary has both an introduction presenting trends and traditions in the field and a comprehensive, structured bibliography pointing the way for further study. 2) Hickey, Raymond 2014. The Sound Structure of Modern Irish. Berlin: de Gruyter Mouton, xiii + 481 pages. A comprehensive description of the phonology of Irish is given in this book. Based on Raymond Hickey Curriculum vitae Page 4 of 28 the main forms of the language, it offers an analysis of the segments and the processes in its sound system. Each section begins with a description of the area of phonology which is the subject – such as stress patterns, phonotactics, epenthesis or metathesis – and then proceeds to consider the special aspects of this subject from a theoretical and typological perspective. The book pays particular attention to key processes in the sound system of modern Irish, such as palatalisation and initial mutation, phenomena which are of relevance to general phonological theory. A typological comparison of several different languages, all of which show palatalisation and/or initial mutation as part of their systems, is also offered. The different forms of Celtic, Slavic languages, Romance dialects and languages along with languages such as Finnish, Fula and Nivkh are considered to find out how processes which are phonetic in origin (external sandhi) can become functionalised and integrated into the morphosyntactic system of a language. 3) Hickey, Raymond 2011. The Dialects of Irish, Study of a Changing Landscape. Berlin: de Gruyter Mouton, 508 pages + DVD. This book offers an overview of forms of modern Irish within a general linguistic framework. Starting with information on the sociolinguistics of modern Irish and on the overall sound system of the language, it then proceeds with a tripartite division of the present-day language into northern, western and southern Irish. It gives specific information on the features of each dialect and considers many sub-divisions, using maps and tables to illustrate clearly what is the subject of discussion. There are several innovations in the book, such as a system of lexical sets which facilitate the description and analysis of variation and change in modern Irish. The data for the book stems from recordings of more than 200 speakers and all the statements made about the structure of Irish are based on native speakers’ speech samples. These are supplied on an accompanying DVD with a software interface which allows users to quickly orient themselves among the dialects of Irish via clickable maps. 4) Hickey, Raymond 2007. Irish English. History and Present-day Forms. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, xx + 504 pages. This book offers an overview of the history of Irish English from the late Middle Ages to the present-day. It deals primarily with the south of Ireland but also has a chapter on language in Ulster. Apart from presenting a factual overview of Irish English, emphasis has put been on issues which are of general interest