| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 403 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
Studies in corpus linguistics (SCL),
1388-0373 ;
Volume 88
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Studies in corpus linguistics ; v. 8.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Preface / Doug Biber -- Introduction: Corpus linguistics and African Englishes / Alexandra U. Esimaje, Ulrike Gut and Bassey E. Antia -- 1.1. What is corpus linguistics? / Alexandra U. Esimaje and Susan Hunston -- 1.2. Corpus-based research on English in Africa: A practical introduction / Robert Fuchs, Bertus van Rooy and Ulrike Gut -- 1.3. The purpose, design and use of the Corpus of Nigerian and Cameroonian English Learner Language (Conacell) / Alexandra U. Esimaje -- 1.4. Introducing a corpus of English(es) spoken in post-independence Namibia: Insights into corpus design and quantitative analyses / Helene Steigertahl -- 1.5. The historical corpus of English in Ghana (HiCE Ghana): Motivation, compilation, opportunities / Thorsten Brato -- 1.6. Addressing a coverage gap in African Englishes: The tagged corpus of Cameroon Pidgin English / Gabriel Ozón, Sarah FitzGerald and Melanie Green -- 1.7. Practical corpus linguistics: Designing and exploiting a written corpus for research with special reference to Cameroon English / Daniel Nkemleke -- 2.1. Evaluating explanations for past-time reference with unmarked verb forms in African Englishes / Bertus van Rooy -- 2.2. The use of stance markers in West African Englishes / Ulrike Gut and Foluke Unuabonah -- 2.3. Namibian English on the web: Lexical and morphosyntactic features in a Corpus of Namibian Online Newspapers (CNamON) / Alexander Kautzsch -- 2.4. Lexical expansion in Ghanaian English from a diachronic perspective: A structural and semantic analysis / Thorsten Brato -- 2.5. Capturing the lexicon of Ugandan English: ICE-Uganda, its limitations, and effective complements / Bebwa Isingoma and Christiane Meierkord -- 3.1. A corpus-based analysis of conjunctive cohesion in English essays of Nigerian university learners / Adeyemi Iyabo -- 3.2. African corpora for standards in African academic English: Case studies on prepositions / Josef Schmied -- 3.3. Semiotic signature of transformation in a diachronic corpus of a South African political party / Bassey E. Antia and Tamsyn Hendricks -- Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
English language -- Variation -- Africa.
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English language -- Variation. |
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Africa. |
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English language -- Africa.
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English language. |
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Languages in contact.
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Languages in contact. |
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Corpora (Linguistics) -- Case studies.
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Corpora (Linguistics) |
| Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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Electronic books.
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Case studies.
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| Added Author |
Esimaje, Alexandra, editor.
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Gut, Ulrike, editor.
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Antia, Bassey Edem, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Corpus linguistics and African Englishes. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2019] 9789027202192 (DLC) 2018047817 |
| ISBN |
9027262934 (electronic book) |
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9789027262936 (electronic book) |
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9789027202192 (hardcover alkaline paper) |
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