Stephanie Hackert
Biographic Data
| ID | 456636 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephanie Hackert |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephanie |
| FAMILY NAME | Hackert |
| SIGNATURE | HACKERT S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0880-229X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
World Englishes and the Native Speaker
The native speaker is one of the central concepts of modern linguistics. In World Englishes theorizing, nativeness has always been crucially implicated in some of the fundamental ideological complexes underlying the field: that varieties are discrete entities which may be “transferred” somewhere or even “spread” themselves; that such varieties are describable in terms of a set of consistent and identifiable features, particularly those that diffe…
Past Marking in Australian Aboriginal English on Croker Island
In this paper, we investigate variable past marking in Australian Aboriginal English as spoken on Croker Island, Northern Territory. Employing data from twenty speakers and both mixed-effects regression and random forests, we show that despite a high degree of individual variability the occurrence or non-occurrence of a past-marked verb is subject to conditioning factors that are known from other varieties of English, most notably lexical and gra…
Past inflection around the world
Recent Grammatical Change in Postcolonial Englishes
This paper presents a diachronic analysis of genitive variation in five varieties of English. Based on a set of matching newspaper corpora from the 1960s and the early 2000s from the Bahamas, Jamaica, India, Great Britain, and the U.S., we look into variation and change in the underlying grammar of the genitive alternation, as defined by patterns of constraints affecting the variable. We employ random forests and Multifactorial Prediction and Dev…
The epicentre model and American influence on Bahamian Englishes
Americanization has been described as one of the major sociocultural processes of language change currently affecting varieties of English worldwide; it is generally linked to the post‐World War II rise of the United States to global superpower status in political, military, economic, and cultural terms. Owing to their immediate geographical proximity, the Bahamas always had closer demographic, cultural, and institutional links with the North Ame…
The Norm Orientation of English in the Caribbean
This study examines newspaper writing from 10 Caribbean countries as a window on the norm orientation of English in the region. The English used in the former British colonies of the Caribbean has been assumed to be especially prone to postcolonial linguistic Americanization, due to mass tourism, media exposure, and long-standing personal and sociocultural links. The authors present a quantitative investigation of variable features, comparing the…
The perfect in English-lexifier pidgins and creoles
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) typological tense-aspect questionnaire. The perfective, as the perfect’s ‘anti-prototype’ ( Dahl 2014 : 273), is also considered. The possession of a grammatica…
You ain’t got principle, you ain’t got nothing
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 roughly 98,000 words, the study provides a variable analysis of the all-purpose negator ain’t and its competitors and offers some remarks on invariant do…
Bahamian Creole
The Emergence of the English Native Speaker
Bahamian Standard English
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 Standard English as spoken in the Bahamas still following the traditional British norm or has it shifted toward an American orientation; and second, what…
Counting and coding the past
Accurate circumscription of the variable context is crucial to any quantitative analysis of linguistic variation. Investigations of past inflection in African American Vernacular English and Caribbean English creoles thus generally include a more or less detailed section concerning the inclusion or exclusion of particular forms; the theoretical grounds on which these decisions are made, however, are not always spelled out. Consequently, there sti…
Gullah in the diaspora
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 ancestor in the eighteenth-century creole English spoken on plantations in the American South. We present historical and linguistic data, including a stati…
Consonant Change in English Worldwide
Donald Winford. 2003. An Introduction to Contact Linguistics
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The Emergence of the English Native Speaker
The Norm Orientation of English in the Caribbean
This study examines newspaper writing from 10 Caribbean countries as a window on the norm orientation of English in the region. The English used in the former British colonies of the Caribbean has been assumed to be especially prone to postcolonial linguistic Americanization, due to mass tourism, media exposure, and long-standing personal and sociocultural links. The authors present a quantitative investigation of variable features, comparing the…
Bahamian Standard English
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 Standard English as spoken in the Bahamas still following the traditional British norm or has it shifted toward an American orientation; and second, what…
Counting and coding the past
Accurate circumscription of the variable context is crucial to any quantitative analysis of linguistic variation. Investigations of past inflection in African American Vernacular English and Caribbean English creoles thus generally include a more or less detailed section concerning the inclusion or exclusion of particular forms; the theoretical grounds on which these decisions are made, however, are not always spelled out. Consequently, there sti…
Donald Winford. 2003. An Introduction to Contact Linguistics
Preview this article: Donald Winford. 2003. An Introduction to Contact Linguistics, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/eww.26.1.10hac-1.gif
Consonant Change in English Worldwide
Gullah in the diaspora
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 ancestor in the eighteenth-century creole English spoken on plantations in the American South. We present historical and linguistic data, including a stati…
Counting and coding the past
Accurate circumscription of the variable context is crucial to any quantitative analysis of linguistic variation. Investigations of past inflection in African American Vernacular English and Caribbean English creoles thus generally include a more or less detailed section concerning the inclusion or exclusion of particular forms; the theoretical grounds on which these decisions are made, however, are not always spelled out. Consequently, there sti…
Bahamian Standard English
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 Standard English as spoken in the Bahamas still following the traditional British norm or has it shifted toward an American orientation; and second, what…
Bahamian Creole
The Emergence of the English Native Speaker
You ain’t got principle, you ain’t got nothing
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 roughly 98,000 words, the study provides a variable analysis of the all-purpose negator ain’t and its competitors and offers some remarks on invariant do…
The perfect in English-lexifier pidgins and creoles
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) typological tense-aspect questionnaire. The perfective, as the perfect’s ‘anti-prototype’ ( Dahl 2014 : 273), is also considered. The possession of a grammatica…
Recent Grammatical Change in Postcolonial Englishes
This paper presents a diachronic analysis of genitive variation in five varieties of English. Based on a set of matching newspaper corpora from the 1960s and the early 2000s from the Bahamas, Jamaica, India, Great Britain, and the U.S., we look into variation and change in the underlying grammar of the genitive alternation, as defined by patterns of constraints affecting the variable. We employ random forests and Multifactorial Prediction and Dev…
The epicentre model and American influence on Bahamian Englishes
Americanization has been described as one of the major sociocultural processes of language change currently affecting varieties of English worldwide; it is generally linked to the post‐World War II rise of the United States to global superpower status in political, military, economic, and cultural terms. Owing to their immediate geographical proximity, the Bahamas always had closer demographic, cultural, and institutional links with the North Ame…
The Norm Orientation of English in the Caribbean
This study examines newspaper writing from 10 Caribbean countries as a window on the norm orientation of English in the region. The English used in the former British colonies of the Caribbean has been assumed to be especially prone to postcolonial linguistic Americanization, due to mass tourism, media exposure, and long-standing personal and sociocultural links. The authors present a quantitative investigation of variable features, comparing the…
Past inflection around the world
World Englishes and the Native Speaker
The native speaker is one of the central concepts of modern linguistics. In World Englishes theorizing, nativeness has always been crucially implicated in some of the fundamental ideological complexes underlying the field: that varieties are discrete entities which may be “transferred” somewhere or even “spread” themselves; that such varieties are describable in terms of a set of consistent and identifiable features, particularly those that diffe…
Past Marking in Australian Aboriginal English on Croker Island
In this paper, we investigate variable past marking in Australian Aboriginal English as spoken on Croker Island, Northern Territory. Employing data from twenty speakers and both mixed-effects regression and random forests, we show that despite a high degree of individual variability the occurrence or non-occurrence of a past-marked verb is subject to conditioning factors that are known from other varieties of English, most notably lexical and gra…
Linguistics (14 works) · History (13 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (13 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (10 works) · Creole language (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · History (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works)