Publications

Monographs

Kautzsch, Alexander. Fc. 2017. The Attainment of an English Accent: British and American Features in Advanced German Learners. Bern, Schweiz: Peter Lang.

Kautzsch, Alexander. 2002. The Historical Evolution of Earlier African American English. An Empirical Comparison of Early Sources. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter.

Edited Volume       

Kautzsch, Alexander (in collaboration with Sarah Buschfeld, Thomas Hoffmann and Magnus Huber). 2014. The Evolution of Englishes: The Dynamic Model and beyond. [Varieties of English Around the World G49]. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Articles

Kautzsch, Alexander. In prep. “Namibian English on the web: Lexical and morpho-syntactic features in a Corpus of Namibian Online Newspapers (CNamON)”. In Alexandra Esimaje, ed. Corpus Linguistics in Africa. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Kautzsch, Alexander. In prep. “English accent models in Germany: An account of free variation”. In Raymond Hickey, ed. English in the German-speaking World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Kautzsch, Alexander. In prep. “Morpho-syntactic features in Earlier African American English: A qualitative assessment of semi-literate letters.” In Raymond Hickey, ed. Keeping in Touch. Familiar Letters across the English-speaking World. Amsterdam: John Benjamins

Buschfeld, Sarah, Alexander Kautzsch and Edgar W. Schneider. In prep. “From colonial dynamism to current transnationalism: a unified view on postcolonial and non-postcolonial Englishes”. In Sandra C. Deshors, ed. Modelling World Englishes in the 21st Century: Assessing the Interplay of Emancipation and Globalization of ESL varieties. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Kautzsch, Alexander. In prep. “Dialect in early African-American plays: A qualitative assessment” In Merja Kytö and Lucia Siebers, eds. Early American English.

Kautzsch, Alexander. In prep. “English in Germany and Namibia: The Effects of Extra- and Intra-Territorial Forces”. In Suzanne Hilgendorf, ed. English in the Expanding Circle. The Shift from Foreign to Additional Language of Use. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins (VEAW).

Kautzsch, Alexander. In prep. “Assessing the development of non-postcolonial Englishes: Germany in the model of extra- and intra-territorial forces.”

Kautzsch, Alexander and Sarah Buschfeld. Fc. 2017. “Theoretical models of English as a world language”. In Daniel Schreier, Marianne Hundt and Edgar W. Schneider, eds. fc. 2017. Cambridge Handbook of World Englishes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Kautzsch, Alexander and Anne Schröder. 2016. “English in multilingual and multiethnic Namibia: Some evidence on language attitudes and on the pronunciation of vowels”. In Christoph Ehland, Ilka Mindt and Merle Tönnies, eds. Anglistentag Paderborn 2015. Proceedings. Trier: WVT, 277-288.

Buschfeld, Sarah and Alexander Kautzsch. In print. “Towards an integrated approach to postcolonial and non-postcolonial Englishes.” World Englishes.

Henderson, Alice, Elina Tergujeff, Anastazija Kirkova-Naskova, Alexander Kautzsch, Ewa Waniek-Klimczak, David Levey, Dan Frost, and Lesley Curnick. 2015. “English Pronunciation Teaching in Europe Survey: Factors inside and outside the classroom.” In Jose A. Mompeán & Jonás Fouz (eds). Investigating English Pronunciation: Trends and Directions. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Buschfeld, Sarah, Thomas Hoffmann, Magnus Huber and Alexander Kautzsch. 2014a. "Editors’ preface: The Evolution of Englishes. In honour of Edgar Schneider on the occasion of his 60th birthday." In Buschfeld et. al. (eds) 2014: xi-xviii.

Buschfeld, Sarah, Thomas Hoffmann, Magnus Huber and Alexander Kautzsch. 2014b. "The Evolution of Englishes. The Dynamic Model and beyond" In Buschfeld et. al. (eds) 2014: 1-17.

Kautzsch, Alexander. 2014. "English in Germany. Spreading bilingualism, retreating exonormative orientation and incipient nativization?" In Buschfeld, Hoffmann, Huber and Kautzsch (eds.) 2014: 203-227.

Buschfeld, Sarah and Alexander Kautzsch. 2014. "English in Namibia: A first approach". English World-Wide 33(2): 121-160.

Kirkova-Naskova, Anastazija, Elina Tergujeff, Dan Frost, Alice Henderson, Alexander Kautzsch, David Levey, Deirdre Murphy, and Ewa Waniek-Klimczak. 2013. " Teachers’ views on their professional training and assessment practices: Selected results from the English Pronunciation Teaching in Europe survey." In J. Levis and K. LeVelle, eds. Proceedings of the 4th Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching Conference. Aug. 2012. Ames, IA: Iowa State University, 29-42.

Kautzsch, Alexander. 2012. "115. English in Contact: African American English (AAE) early evidence". In Alexander Bergs and Laurel Brinton, eds. Historical Linguistics of English (HSK - Handbuecher zu Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft). Belin et al: De Gruyter, 1793-1807.

Kautzsch, Alexander. 2012. "Transfer, similarity or lack of awareness? Inconsistencies of German learners in the pronunciation of LOT, THOUGHT, STRUT, PALM and BATH". Research in Language 10,2: 225-241.

Henderson, Alice, Dan Frost, Elina Tergujeff, Alexander Kautzsch, Deirdre Murphy, Anastazija Kirkova-Naskova, Ewa Waniek-Klimczak, David Levey, Una Cunningham and Lesley Curnick. 2012. "The English Pronunciation Teaching in Europe Survey: Selected Results. Research in Language 10,2: 5-28.

Kautzsch, Alexander. 2012. "Earlier African American Vernacular English". In: Bernd Kortmann and Kerstin Lunkenheimer (eds.), The Mouton World Atlas of Variation in English. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.

Kautzsch, Alexander. 2011. "Befragung zum Lehren der Aussprache. Ein Zwischenbericht". Praxis Fremdsprachenunterricht. Sonderheft Aussprache, 17.

Kautzsch, Alexander. 2011. "Earlier African American Vernacular English". In: Bernd Kortmann and Kerstin Lunkenheimer (eds.), The Electronic World Atlas of Variation in English: Grammar. München/Berlin: Max Planck Digital Library in cooperation with Mouton de Gruyter.

Kautzsch, Alexander. 2010. "Exploring L1 transfer in German Learners of English: High front vowels, high back vowels and the BED/BAD distinction.” Research in Language (Special Issue: Proceedings of ACCENTS 2009, Lodz) 8: 63-84.

Kautzsch, Alexander. 2004. "Earlier African American English: morphology and syntax". In Bernd Kortmann, Kate Burridge, Rajend Mesthrie and Edgar Schneider, eds. A Handbook of Varieties of English. Vol. 2: Morphology and Syntax. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 341-355.

Kautzsch, Alexander. 2002. "Combining early sources: A new approach to the historical study of African American English." In Dieter Kastovsky, Günther Kaltenböck and Susanne Reichel, eds. Anglistentag Wien 2001. Proceedings. Trier: WVT, 57-73.

Kautzsch, Alexander and Edgar W. Schneider. 2000. "Differential creolization: Some evidence from Earlier African American Vernacular English in South Carolina". In Ingrid Neumann-Holzschuh and Edgar W. Schneider, eds.  Degrees of Restructuring in Creole Languages. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: Benjamins, 247-274.

Kautzsch, Alexander. 2000. "Liberian letters and Virginian narratives: Negation patterns in two new sources of earlier African American English." American Speech 75,1:34-53.

Kautzsch, Alexander . 1998. "'English Around the World' als Internet-Projekt. Ein hochschuldidaktisches Experiment". Anglistik 9.2:125-30.

Annual review article on "New Englishes and creolistics" in The Year's Work in English Studies

Kautzsch, Alexander. 2017. “New Englishes and creolistics”. Part of Verena Haser, Anita Auer, Bert Botma, Beáta Gyuris, Kathryn Allan, Mackenzie Kerby, Lieselotte Anderwald, Alexander Kautzsch, Maja Miličević, Tihana Kraš, and Marcus Callies. “Chapter I. English Language” in The Year’s Work in English Studies 96.

Kautzsch, Alexander. 2016. “New Englishes and creolistics”. Part of Verena Haser, Anita Auer, Bert Botma, Beáta Gyuris, Kathryn Allan, Mackenzie Kerby, Lieselotte Anderwald, Alexander Kautzsch, Maja Miličević, Tihana Kraš, and Marcus Callies. “Chapter I. English Language” in The Year’s Work in English Studies 95: 82-98.

Kautzsch, Alexander. 2015. “New Englishes and creolistics”. Part of Verena Haser, Anita Auer, Bert Botma, Beáta Gyuris, Kathryn Allan, Mackenzie Kerby, Lieselotte Anderwald, Alexander Kautzsch, Maja Miličević, Tihana Kraš, and Marcus Callies. “Chapter I. English Language” in The Year’s Work in English Studies 94: 63-80.

Reviews

Kautzsch, Alexander. 2017. Review of Ole Schützler. 2015. A Sociophonetic Approach to Scottish Standard English. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Anglistik 28(1): 162-164.

Kautzsch, Alexander. 2016. Review of Maciej Widawski. 2015. African American Slang. A Linguistic Description. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. World Englishes 35(4): 631-634.

Kautzsch, Alexander. 2016. Review of Simone E. Pfenninger, Olga Timofeeva, Anne-Christine Gardner, Alpo Honkapohja, Marianne Hundt and Daniel Schreier, eds. 2014. Contact, Variation, and Change in the History of English. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins (Studies in Language Companion Series 159). Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics 2(1): 149-153.

Kautzsch, Alexander. 2010. Review of Ewa Waniek-Klimczak, ed. 2008 Issues of Accents of English. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. English World-Wide 31,3: 361-5.

Kautzsch, Alexander. 2006. Review of Lisa J. Green. 2002. African American English: A Linguistic Introduction. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press. Language in Society 35,1:148-152.

Kautzsch, Alexander. 2003. Review of John Algeo, ed. The Cambridge History of the English Language, Volume VI: English in North America. ZAA-Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 51,1:67-68.

Kautzsch, Alexander. 1998. Salikoko S. Mufwene, John R. Rickford, Guy Bailey and John Baugh. 1998. African-American English: Structure, history and use. London and New York: Routledge. English World-Wide 19,2:304-307.