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Stefan's publications:

forthc. "Emgering standards in the colonies: prescriptivism, variation and the (elusive) lower-class writer" - in: Letters, Language and Change in English: Witnessing Sociolinguistic Histories , ed. by Anita Auer, Daniel Schreier and Richard J. Watts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

forthc. "Chapter 54. Canadian English" - in: Bergs, Alexander and Laurel J. Brinton (eds.) Historical Linguistics of English. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter (= Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft).

In press. "The written questionnaire as a sociolinguistic data gathering tool: testing its validity". Journal of English Linguistics 39

2011. (with Luanne von Schneidemsser) "Canadianism, Americanism, North Americanism? A Comparison of DARE and DCHP". American Speech 86(2): 115-151.

2010. "Written sources of Canadian English: phonetic reconstruction and the low-back vowel merger" In: Raymond Hickey, (ed.) Varieties of English in Writing: The Written Word as Linguistic Evidence. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 197-222.

2010. "Software from the Bank of Canadian English as an open source tool for the dialectologist: ling.surf and its features" In: Manfred Markus, Clive Upton and Reinhard Heuberger (eds.) Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary and Beyond: Studies in Late Modern English Dialectology. Berne: Lang, 249-261.

2010. "A new historical dictionary of Canadian English as a linguistic database tool. Or, making a virtue out of necessity" In: Considine, John (ed.) Current Projects in Historical Lexicography. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 99-112.

2008. "Taking permissible shortcuts ? Limited evidence, heuristic reasoning and the modal auxiliaries in early Canadian English" In: Fitzmaurice, S. and D. Minkova (eds.) Studies in the History English Language IV: Empirical and Analytical Advances in the Study of English language Change. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter (= Topics in English Linguistics), 357-385.

2008. (with Laurel J. Brinton). "Canadian English lexis: historical and variationist perspectives". Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies 19(2) Special Issue "Focus on Canadian English", Ed. by Matthias Meyer, 43-64.

2008. "Colonial variation in the Late Modern English business letter: 'periphery and core' or 'random variation'?" In: Dossena, Marina and Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade (eds). Studies in Late Modern English Correspondence: Methodology and Data. Bern: Peter Lang (= Linguistic Insights, 76), 257-287.

2007. "English-German bilingualism in British Columbia past to present: data, evidence, challenges" In: Smit, Ute et al. (eds.) Tracing English through time: explorations in language variation. Vienna: Braumüller (= Austrian Studies in English, 85), 51-77.

2007. "The importance of demography for the study of historical Canadian English: three examples from the Corpus of Early Ontario English" 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: Peter Lang (= Linguistic Insights, 28), 105-136.

2007. "The modal auxiliaries have to and must in the Corpus of Early Ontario English: gradient change and colonial lag". Canadian Journal of Linguistics. 51/2&3: 287-308.

2006."Towards a fully revised and extended edition of the Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles (DCHP-2): background, challenges, prospects". HSL/SHL - Historical Sociolinguistics/Sociohistorical Linguistics (Leiden, NL). 6. http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/hsl_shl/DCHP-2/DCHP-2/DCHP-2.htm, 1 Sept. 2006.

2006. "Oh Canada! Towards the Corpus of Early Ontario English" In: Renouf, Antoinette and Andrew Kehoe (eds.). The changing face of corpus linguistics. Proceedings of the 24th ICAME Conference, Guernsey, UK, April 2003. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 7-25 (= Language and Computers, 55).

2004. "Historical corpus compilation and 'philological computing' vs. 'philological outsourcing': a LModE test case." VIEWS. 13/2: 3-23. avail. also online at: http://www.univie.ac.at/Anglistik/ang_new/online_papers/views.html

2003. "What the capitalization of nouns in Early Canadian English may tell us about ‚'colonial lag' theory: methods and problems." VIEWS. 12/1: 24-44 - online version available at: http://www.univie.ac.at/Anglistik/ang_new/online_papers/views/03_1/DOL_SGLE.PDF

2002. "Einsprachige Einfalt versus mehrsprachige Vielfalt. Integrationsvertrag und Ortstafelstreit während des Jahres der Sprachen in Österreich." APFA-SCOPE. 29: 3-5. auch online unter: http://www.univie.ac.at/Romanistik/Sprachwerkstatt/public/apfa/einsprachige_einfalt_.htm

2001. "The Old English/Middle English prefix ge- as a linguistic replicator: a morphological case study in a neo-Darwinian paradigm." VIEWS 10/2 (Vienna English Working Papers). Online at: http://www.univie.ac.at/Anglistik/ang_new/online_papers/views/views012.pdf

2008. New-Dialect Formation in Canada: Evidence from the English Modal Auxiliaries. Amsterdam: Benjamins (= Studies in Language Companion Series 97), xxii+355 pp.

Reviewed in LinguistList Vol. 19 (28 Nov. 08). Read review Reviewed in MultiLingua 28:117-20 (2009) Reviewed in Journal of Sociolinguistics 13/2: 269-72 (2009) Reviewed in ICAME Journal 33: 101-104 (2009) Reviewed in English World-Wide 31/1: 108-11 (2010)   View book announcement

2007. Editor (with Ute Smit, Julia Hüttner, Gunther Kaltenböck, Ursula Lutzky). Tracing English through time: explorations in language variation. Vienna: Braumüller (= Austrian Studies in English, 95).

2011. Review of "Schneider, Edgar W. 2008. Varieties of English, Vol. 2: The Americas and the Caribbean. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter". World Englishes 30(2):280-283.

2009. Review of "Schreier, Daniel. 2008. St Helenian English: Origins, Evolution and Variation. Amsterdam: Benjamins (= Varieties of English Around the World, G37)." Linguistlist 20 (20 July 2009). Available online: http://linguistlist.org/issues/20/20-2557.html (1 Aug. 2009).

2009. "Beastly, Horrible French", hein? Review of "Bouchard, Chantal (Author) and Luise von Flotow (Translator)
Obsessed with Language: A Sociolinguistic History of Quebec. Guernica Editions. Canadian Literature. Available online: http://www.canlit.ca/reviews.php?id=14668 (1 Aug. 2009).

2008. "Uniquely Canadian, Eh? Review of Katherine Barber. 2007. Only in Canada you say: a treasury of Canadian language." American Speech. 83(4): 472-475.

2008. Review of "Brinton, Laurel J. and Leslie K. Arnovick. 2006. The English language: a linguistic history". Journal of English Linguistics 36: 88-92.

2006. Review of "Singh, Ishtla. 2005. The history of English: a student's guide. London: Hodder Arnold." LinguistList. 17, available at: http://linguistlist.org/issues/17/17-293.html, 28 Jan. 2006, 15 paragr. & refs.

2005. "Historical English linguistics at 7,000 feet above sea level: a report on SHEL-4". HSL/SHL - Historical Sociolinguistics/Sociohistorical Linguistics (Leiden, NL), avail. online at: http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/hsl_shl/SHEL4.htm, 1 Nov. 2005, 16 paragr.

2005. Review of "Hickey, Raymond (ed.) 2004. Legacies of colonial English. Studies in transported dialects. Cambridge: CUP (= Studies in English Language)". LinguistList. 16, available at: http://linguistlist.org/issues/16/16-2191.html, 16 July 2005, 34 paragr. & refs.

2006. New-dialect formation in early Canada: the modal auxiliaries in Ontario English, 1776-1850. PhD thesis, University of Vienna, 305 pages.

2001. In search of linguistic replicators. A case study on OE/ME ge- in a neo-Darwinian framework. M.A. thesis. Department of English, Universität Wien. 173 pages.

2008. "The canary in the coalmine?" Newsletter of the Dictionary Society of North America 32(2): 1&3. http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/dsna/DSNANFall08.pdf (30 Jan. 2009).

2006. To h*** with HEL [History of English]: Discussion results. http://linguistlist.org/issues/17/17-1234.html, (24 April 2006).

2004. "Koordination und Mission" - in: Mettinger, Arthur und Irene Schmölz (eds.) Ist aller Anfang schwer? Tätigkeitsbericht des Sprachenzentrum der Universität Wien. 2001-2003. Wien: SZUW Verlag, 10-11.

2004. "Die Homepage als Informationsplattform: www.sprachenzentrum.at" - in: Mettinger, Arthur und Irene Schmölz (eds.) Ist aller Anfang schwer? Tätigkeitsbericht des Sprachenzentrum der Universität Wien. 2001-2003. Wien: SZUW Verlag, 30-33.

2003. for A. Mettinger: "Sprachen an der Universität Wien: Perspektiven, Möglichkeiten, Wünsche" - in: Krumm, Hans-Jürgen (Hrsg.) Sprachenvielfalt. Babylonische Sprachverwirrung oder Mehrsprachigkeit als Chance? Innsbruck: Studienverlag, 17-26.

2001. mit K. Kordon, B. Soukup "Kurzbericht: Das Sprachenangebot in Wien - mit einem Kapitel über internationale universitäre Sprachenzentren." Recherchebericht. Verfügbar unter: http://www.univie.ac.at/sprachenzentrum/dokumentation/article.siteswift?so=all&do=all&c=download&d=s%3A13%3A%22article%3A113%3A1%22%3B