Raymond Hickey

Datos Biográficos

ID543879
NOMBRERaymond Hickey
NOMBRESRaymond
APELLIDOHickey
FIRMAHICKEY R
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Duisburg-Essen
ORCID0000-0003-2354-0205
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS47
TOTAL DE CITAS37
TOTAL COMO AUTOR36
TOTAL COMO EDITOR11
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1984
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H3

  • The New Cambridge History of the English Language

    Open AccessCeleste Rodríguez Louro, Glenys Collard et al.BOOKThe New Cambridge History of the…2026

    This volume offers in-depth coverage of varieties of English across the world, outside of the British and North American arenas. It is split into two parts, with Part 1 dedicated to varieties of English across Africa, and Part 2 looking at varieties in Asia, and Australia and the Pacific. There are introductory chapters dealing with the colonial transportation of English overseas, and the generic types of English which resulted, often labelled Wo…

  • Anyway in Irish English

    Open AccessRaymond HickeyARTICLEJournal of Historical Pragmatics2024Referencias: 8

    The development of the pragmatic marker anyway in Irish English is of relatively recent date. From an original adverb of manner there developed a pragmatic meaning when the element shifted to the right periphery (or became exposed there through deletion of an element to the right of it). A transition period occurred during which varying interpretations of anyway were possible, facilitating the rise of anyway as a pragmatic marker. Later it appear…

  • The sociolinguistics of mergers

    Open AccessRaymond HickeyARTICLEWorld Englishes2024Referencias: 6

    In the attested history and spread of English many mergers, conditioned and non‐conditioned, have taken place. Some of these involved consonants, such as the which ≠ witch merger, but the majority affected the vowels of the sound system, such as the horse ≠ hoarse merger. Many mergers at present are shared across a broad spectrum of varieties of English with conservative vernaculars retaining sound distinctions longest. A sociolinguistic interpre…

  • The Oxford Handbook of Irish English

    Raymond HickeyBOOKOxford Handbook of Irish English2023

    This volume offers a comprehensive overview of the range of varieties of English spoken on the island of Ireland, featuring information on their historical background, structural features, and sociolinguistic considerations. The first part of the volume explores English and Irish in their historical framework as well as current issues of contact and bilingualism. Chapters in Part II and Part III investigate the structures and use of Irish English…

  • Oxford Handbook of Irish English

    Raymond HickeyBOOKOxford Handbook of Irish English2023

  • Irish Dialect Classification

    Open AccessRaymond HickeyARTICLEDialectologia2022

    The Irish language is among the oldest vernaculars spoken in Europe, but Ireland’s history and the language shift to English led to the almost complete demise of traditional Irish in Ireland. The current dialects areas – South, West and North – are the remnants of a much greater geographical distribution of Irish throughout the country. The major differences in pronunciation, grammar and vocabulary, which can be observed in Irish today, probably …

  • The Handbook of Language Contact

    Open AccessRaymond HickeyBOOKHandbook of Language Contact2020

  • On the recent history of low vowels in English

    Open AccessRaymond HickeyARTICLEEnglish Language and Linguistics2020

    The development of low vowels in the history of English is one which shows continuous movement, usually upwards along earlier back and later front trajectories. In addition, low vowels have been subject to lengthening processes which have compensated for the loss of earlier instances of long low vowels. Shifts along a horizontal axis, from low front to low back, can also be discerned throughout the history of English. The present study begins by …

  • Borrowing. Loanwords in the Speech Community and in the Grammar

    Raymond HickeyARTICLEJournal of Historical Sociolinguist…2020

  • English and Celtic

    Raymond HickeyARTICLELinguistics Vanguard2020

    This paper offers an overview of current research into the contact between English and Celtic, both in its historical and geographical dimensions. It attempts to classify contact scenarios by their type and the linguistic effects they engender. A number of examples are discussed which illustrate typical contact effects, and generalizations are made about contact-induced language change which can be taken to apply to further cases of language cont…

  • Handbook of Language Contact

    Raymond HickeyBOOKHandbook of Language Contact2020

  • Irish Identities

    Elaine Vaughan, Irish English and the Construction of Identity Murcia et al.BOOKIrish Identities2020

  • English in the German-Speaking World

    Raymond HickeyBOOKEnglish in the German-Speaking…2019

  • Keeping in Touch

    Open AccessRaymond HickeyBOOKKeeping in Touch2019

    The current volume presents a number of chapters which look at informal vernacular letters, written mostly by emigrants to the former colonies of Britain, who settled at these locations in the past few centuries, with a focus on letters from the nineteenth century. Such documents often show features for varieties of English which do not necessarily appear in later sources or which are not attested with the same range or in the same set of grammat…

  • Re-examining codification

    Open AccessRaymond HickeyARTICLELanguage Policy2019Referencias: 4

  • ‘Yes, that's the best’

    Open AccessRaymond HickeyARTICLEEnglish Today2018

    In different parts of the English-speaking world various vowel changes have been taking place in recent years, perhaps the most noticeable of which is the vowel lowering in words like DRESS and TRAP. This lowering would seem to have its origins some few decades ago in North America, probably in California and perhaps simultaneously in Canada. The shift, labelled here short front vowel lowering (SFVL), has spread quickly across the anglophone worl…

  • The pragmatics of grand in Irish English

    Raymond HickeyARTICLEJournal of Historical Pragmatics2017Citada por: 1Referencias: 2

    Over the past two centuries, the use of the adjective grand underwent a specific semantic expansion in Irish English. Apart from the meaning of ‘displaying grandeur’, the adjective came to mean ‘fine’, ‘alright’ and ‘in good form’, both as an expression of the speaker’s situation and as a reference to that of the addressee. This development can be shown to represent a case of subjectification, as described seminally by Elizabeth Traugott in vario…

  • Irish English in the Anglophone world

    Open AccessRaymond HickeyARTICLEWorld Englishes2017Referencias: 3

    The English language in Ireland can look back on a history of several centuries during which it developed various forms, from urban varieties, especially in Dublin, to rural varieties which arose during the language shift from Irish to English, above all in the nineteenth century. In addition, divergent forms of English arose in the North of Ireland, chiefly as a result of significant immigration from Scotland and the North of England during the …

  • Irish

    Raymond HickeyARTICLERevue belge de philologie et d…2012

  • The English Language in Ireland

    Raymond HickeyARTICLERevue belge de philologie et d…2012

  • Present and future horizons for Irish English

    Open AccessRaymond HickeyARTICLEEnglish Today2011

    The English language was first taken to Ireland in the late twelfth century and enjoyed a modest position in late medieval Irish society, a position which betrayed no sign of the later dominance of English in Ireland as in so many countries to which the language was taken during the period of English colonialism. The fate of the English language after initial settlement was determined by the existence of Irish and Anglo-Norman as widely spoken la…

  • The Handbook of Language Contact

    Open AccessRaymond HickeyBOOKThe Handbook of Language Contact2010

    "Language contact is a dynamic area of contemporary linguistic research that studies how language changes when speakers of different languages interact. Accessibly structured into three sections, The Handbook of Language Contact explores the role of contact studies within the field of linguistics, the value of contact studies for language change research, and the relevance of language contact for sociolinguistics. This authoritative volume presen…

  • Linguistic evaluation of earlier texts

    Raymond HickeyCHAPTERVarieties of English in writing2010

    Assessing non-standard texts from previous centuries of necessity involves examining the notion of ‘standard’ which existed before the present. The modern notion of standard English is an eighteenth-century development which builds on formal usage prior to that. The prescriptivism which arose at this time led to the social marginalisation of dialects and their literature. Works written in dialect or containing dialect can be examined in an attemp…

  • Irish English in early modern drama

    Raymond HickeyCHAPTERVarieties of English in writing2010

    A number of dramatic texts are scrutinised here for the linguistic analysis of Irish English in the early modern period. A broad range of different plays by authors from the late sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries are examined to determine if the non-standard spellings contained in these texts could have reflected genuine features of spoken Irish English at the time of writing. The analysis shows that some of the features which the textual rec…

  • Handbook of Language Contact

    Raymond HickeyBOOKHandbook of Language Contact2010