Corpus linguistics and African Englishes / / edited by Alexandra U. Esimaje, Ulrike Gut, Bassey E. Antia.
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Superior document: | Studies in corpus linguistics, volume 88 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam ;, Philadelphia : : John Benjamins Publishing Company,, [2019] 2019 |
Year of Publication: | 2019 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Studies in corpus linguistics ;
v. 88. |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (415 pages) :; color illustrations. |
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Table of 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 Ozon, 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.