This article examines the use of sorry as a discourse-pragmatic feature in three African
varieties of English: Ghanaian English, Nigerian English and Ugandan English, in terms of …

This paper examines pragmatic variation in the use of anyway between Nigerian English
and Ghanaian English, in terms of its frequency, position, collocational patterns, pragmatic …

Several studies on heritage speakers'(HSs) majority language (ML) have indicated that HSs
might be more explicit than monolingually-raised speakers (MSs) of this language. A reason …

This study explores six borrowed discourse-pragmatic features–koraa/kraa, saa, paa, yoo,
wai/wae, and waa,–which are borrowed from indigenous Ghanaian languages into …

This study aims to widen our knowledge of substrate influence and language transfer in
World Englishes through the study of the verb complementation system of regret in four …

This study aims to contribute to the body of work on the effects of substrate languages and
language transfer in World Englishes by asking whether the clausal verb complementation …

Adjectives in English can express the comparative in two ways, either synthetically, with the
addition of the suffix-er (eg nicer), or analytically, with the adverb more preceding the …

Abstract English has been the de facto official language of Ghana since the country gained
independence from Britain in 1957. According to Dolphyne (1995: 31)“it is… standard …

This study aims to widen our knowledge of substrate influence and language transfer in
World Englishes through the study of the verb complementation system of REGRET in four …

Heritage speakers (HSs) are bilinguals who typically speak one language within the family
and cultural or religious settings–the heritage language (HL)–and another language that is …