LEADER 03748oam 2200517I 450 001 9910793208703321 005 20220314135702.0 010 $a90-272-6293-4 035 $a(CKB)4100000007587849 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5652165 035 $a(PPN)238718506 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007587849 100 $a20181018h20192019 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||uunuu 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aCorpus linguistics and African Englishes /$fedited by Alexandra U. Esimaje, Ulrike Gut, Bassey E. Antia 210 1$aAmsterdam [Netherlands] ;$aPhiladelphia :$cJohn Benjamins Publishing Company,$d[2019] 210 4$dİ2019 215 $a1 online resource (415 pages) $ccolor illustrations 225 1 $aStudies in corpus linguistics,$x1388-0373 ;$vvolume 88 311 1 $a90-272-0219-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPreface / 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 Ozo?n, 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. 410 0$aStudies in corpus linguistics ;$vv. 88. 606 $aEnglish language$xVariation$zAfrica 606 $aEnglish language$zAfrica 606 $aLanguages in contact 606 $aCorpora (Linguistics)$vCase studies 615 0$aEnglish language$xVariation 615 0$aEnglish language 615 0$aLanguages in contact. 615 0$aCorpora (Linguistics) 676 $a427.96 700 $aEsimaje$b Alexandra$01476575 702 $aGut$b Ulrike 702 $aAntia$b Bassey Edem 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910793208703321 996 $aCorpus linguistics and African Englishes$93691318 997 $aUNINA