03748oam 2200517I 450 991082379640332120220314135702.090-272-6293-4(CKB)4100000007587849(MiAaPQ)EBC5652165(PPN)238718506(EXLCZ)99410000000758784920181018h20192019 uy| 0engurcnu|||uunuurdacontentrdamediardacarrierCorpus linguistics and African Englishes /edited by Alexandra U. Esimaje, Ulrike Gut, Bassey E. AntiaAmsterdam [Netherlands] ;Philadelphia :John Benjamins Publishing Company,[2019]©20191 online resource (415 pages) color illustrationsStudies in corpus linguistics,1388-0373 ;volume 8890-272-0219-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.Studies in corpus linguistics ;v. 88.English languageVariationAfricaEnglish languageAfricaLanguages in contactCorpora (Linguistics)Case studiesEnglish languageVariationEnglish languageLanguages in contact.Corpora (Linguistics)427.96Esimaje Alexandra1599974Gut UlrikeAntia Bassey EdemMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910823796403321Corpus linguistics and African Englishes3922874UNINA