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Corpus linguistics and African Englishes / / edited by Alexandra U. Esimaje, Ulrike Gut, Bassey E. Antia
| Corpus linguistics and African Englishes / / edited by Alexandra U. Esimaje, Ulrike Gut, Bassey E. Antia |
| Autore | Esimaje Alexandra |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam [Netherlands] ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2019] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (415 pages) : color illustrations |
| Disciplina | 427.96 |
| Collana | Studies in corpus linguistics |
| Soggetto topico |
English language - Variation - Africa
English language - Africa Languages in contact Corpora (Linguistics) |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 90-272-6293-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910467546903321 |
Esimaje Alexandra
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| Amsterdam [Netherlands] ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2019] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Corpus linguistics and African Englishes / / edited by Alexandra U. Esimaje, Ulrike Gut, Bassey E. Antia
| Corpus linguistics and African Englishes / / edited by Alexandra U. Esimaje, Ulrike Gut, Bassey E. Antia |
| Autore | Esimaje Alexandra |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam [Netherlands] ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2019] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (415 pages) : color illustrations |
| Disciplina | 427.96 |
| Collana | Studies in corpus linguistics |
| Soggetto topico |
English language - Variation - Africa
English language - Africa Languages in contact Corpora (Linguistics) |
| ISBN | 90-272-6293-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910793208703321 |
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Esimaje Alexandra
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| Amsterdam [Netherlands] ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2019] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Corpus linguistics and African Englishes / / edited by Alexandra U. Esimaje, Ulrike Gut, Bassey E. Antia
| Corpus linguistics and African Englishes / / edited by Alexandra U. Esimaje, Ulrike Gut, Bassey E. Antia |
| Autore | Esimaje Alexandra |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam [Netherlands] ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2019] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (415 pages) : color illustrations |
| Disciplina | 427.96 |
| Collana | Studies in corpus linguistics |
| Soggetto topico |
English language - Variation - Africa
English language - Africa Languages in contact Corpora (Linguistics) |
| ISBN | 90-272-6293-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910823796403321 |
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Esimaje Alexandra
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| Amsterdam [Netherlands] ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2019] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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