This chapter describes the history, role, and structural properties of English in the West
African countries the Gambia, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ghana, Nigeria, the anglophone part of …

This chapter aims to trace the history of the meaning of the word “dialect” and to outline the
rise of dialectology, which is the historical study of dialects in this sense. Furthermore, it …

Ghanaian English (GhE) is an Outer Circle variety spoken by the educated section of
Ghana's ca. 25 million inhabitants (2012). In its morpho-syntax, GhE shows close affinities …

This chapter discusses various aspects relevant to the compilation of the Historical Corpus
of English in Ghana (HiCE Ghana), a 600,000-word corpus of written Ghanaian English …

Geography as a powerful, in fact the key explanatory factor in language-internal variation is
a central premise in traditional dialectology and dialectometry. In both fields it has amply …

Map Af_1: The WAVE varieties in Africa Page 1 806 Map Af_1: The WAVE varieties in Africa
Page 2 Regional profile: Africa 807 Magnus Huber Regional profile: Africa* 1 Introduction In …

The perfect in World Englishes has attracted much attention recently, especially from a
semasiological perspective, in which the analytic have+ participle is analysed in comparison …

The present article investigates the use of pluralized mass nouns such as furnitures in two
East African (Kenyan, Tanzanian) and two West African (Nigerian, Ghanaian) Englishes …

One of the contexts of expansion of progressive forms in Late Modern English (along with
others that were later equally, or even more, successful; see eg Fitzmaurice 2004; …

Abstract Research on Afro-European Creole languages has been deeply invested in
theorizing the ontological status of Creoles. Sensationalist claims that Creoles have the …