Raymond Hickey

Raymond Hickey is Adjunct Professor at the University of Limerick and former Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Duisburg-Essen. His research centres around varieties of English, especially Irish English (Irish English, History and Present-day Forms, Cambridge University Press, 2007; Dublin English. Evolution and Change, John Benjamins, 2005), eighteenth-century English, standardisation of English, language contact and areal linguistics,as well as sociolinguistic variation and change. Recent books are Listening to the Past, Audio Records of Accents of English (Cambridge University Press, 2017), The Cambridge Handbook of Areal Linguistics (Cambridge University Press, 2017), English in the German-speaking World (Cambridge University Press, 2020), English in Multilingual South Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2020), Handbook of Language Contact (Wiley, 2020), Sound of English World-Wide (Wiley-Blackwell, 2023) and the Oxford Handbook of Irish English (Oxford University Press, 2023).