publications

Publications

2019. Why very good in India might be pretty good in North America – amplifier-adjective 2-grams in Global Englishes. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 24(4): 445–489. https://doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.17063.wag

2017. Totally new and pretty awesome: Amplifier–adjective bigrams in GloWbE. Lingua 200: 63-83. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2017.08.004

2016a. Never saw one - null subjects in spoken English. English Language and Linguistics 22(1): 1-34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1360674316000216

2008a. The Tocque Formula and Newfoundland English. Papers from Methods XII, Moncton 1-5 August 2005. Special issue of Linguistica Atlantica (26–27): 141– 146.

2007. Unstressed periphrastic do – from Southwest England to Newfoundland? English World-Wide 28: 249–278. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/eww.28.3.03wag

2000. Depends how long you want for it to take: For/to clauses in present-day spoken British English. Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 25: 191–211.

Book Chapters

fc. Newfoundland English. In Christopher J. Jenks (ed.), US and Canadian Englishes. Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of World Englishes. Chichester etc.: Wiley Blackwell.

fc. West Country English. Accepted for publication in Alex Baratta (ed.), UK Englishes. Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of World Englishes. Chichester etc.: Wiley Blackwell.

2016c. with Josef Schmied. Culture in newspaper writing? Comparing journalistic text types in Englishes around the world. In Lewandowska-Tomaszcyk, Barbara, Monika Kopytowska, John Osborne, Josef Schmied & Konca Yumulu (eds.), Languages, Cultures, Media. Chambéry: Université Savoie Mont Blanc, 177-125.

2013a. South West English. In Hopkins, Tometro and John McKenny (eds.), World Englishes – Volume I – The British Isles. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 167-188. http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/world-englishes-volumes-i-iii-set-9780826478481/

2013b. English non-finite clauses in German student writing: frequency, use and accomplishment. Unpublished manuscript.

2012b. Late Modern English Dialects. In Brinton, Laurel and Alexander Bergs (eds.),Historical Linguistics of English: An International Handbook. Vol. 1. Berlin/ New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 915–938. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110251593.915

2012c. Pronominal systems. In Hickey, Raymond (ed.), Areal Features of the Anglophone World. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 379–408. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110279429.379

2012d. Southwest English dialects. In Kortmann, Bernd and Kerstin Lunkenheimer (eds.), The Mouton World Atlas of Variation in English: Grammar. Berlin/ New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 78-87. New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 78-87. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110280128.78

2012e. Newfoundland English. In Kortmann, Bernd and Kerstin Lunkenheimer (eds.), The Mouton World Atlas of Variation in English: Grammar. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 109-125. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110280128.109

2011. Concessives and Contrastives in Student Writing: L1, L2 and Genre Differences. In Schmied, Josef (ed.), Academic Writing in Europe: Empirical Perspectives. Göttingen: Cuvillier, 23–49.

2010. with Bernd Kortmann. Changes and continuities in dialect grammar. In Hickey, Raymond (ed.), Eighteenth Century English. Ideology and Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 269–292. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511781643.015

2008b. English dialects in the Southwest: morphology and syntax. In Kortmann, Bernd und Clive Upton (eds.), Varieties of English – The British Isles. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 417–439. (paperback edition of Wagner 2004b). DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110208399.2.417

2007a. with Lieselotte Anderwald. The Freiburg English Dialect Corpus (FRED) – Applying Corpus-Linguistic Research Tools to the Analysis of Dialect Data. In Beal, Joan, Karen Corrigan and Herman Moisl (eds.), Creating and Digitizing Language Corpora: Vol. I: Synchronic Corpora. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 35–53. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230223936

2007b. with Bernd Kortmann. A Fresh Look at Late Modern English Dialect Syntax. In Pérez-Guerra, Javier, Dolores González-Álvarez, Jorge L. Bueno-Alonso and Esperanza Rama-Martínez (eds.), Of Varying Language and Opposing Creed. New Insights into Late Modern English. Bern/Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 279–300.

2005a. Gender in English pronouns: Southwest England. In: Kortmann, Bernd, Tanja Herrmann, Lukas Pietsch und Susanne Wagner, A Comparative Grammar of British English Dialects: Agreement, Gender, Relative Clauses. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 211–367. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110197518.211

2005b. with Bernd Kortmann. The Freiburg English Dialect Project and Corpus. In: Kortmann, Bernd, Tanja Herrmann, Lukas Pietsch und Susanne Wagner. A Comparative Grammar of British English Dialects: Agreement, Gender, Relative Clauses. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1–20. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110197518.1

2004a. ‘Gendered’ pronouns in English dialects. In: Kortmann, Bernd (ed.), Dialectology Meets Typology. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 479–496. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110197327.479

2004b. The morphology and syntax of English dialects in the Southwest. In: Kortmann, Bernd and Edgar W. Schneider (eds.), A Handbook of Varieties of English. Vol. II: Morphology & Syntax. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 154–174. DOI: 10.1515/9783110175325.2.154 (currently missing from dx.doi.org)

Other

2016b. Susan Fox, The new Cockney: New ethnicities and adolescent speech in the traditional East End of London. Book Review. English Language & Linguistics. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1360674316000472

2011b. Dialects of Southwest England dataset. In Kortmann, Bernd and Kerstin Lunkenheimer (eds.), The Electronic World Atlas of Varieties of English. München/Berlin: Max Planck Digital Library in cooperation with Mouton de Gruyter. http://www.ewave-atlas.org.

2011c. Newfoundland English dataset. In Kortmann, Bernd and Kerstin Lunkenheimer (eds.), The Electronic World Atlas of Varieties of English. München/Berlin: Max Planck Digital Library in cooperation with Mouton de Gruyter. http://www.ewave-atlas.org.

2002. 'We don't say she, do us?' Pronoun exchange - a feature of English dialects? Unpublished manuscript. https://www.academia.edu/53887634/We_dont_say_she_do_us_Pronoun_Exchange_a_feature_of_English_dialects.