This study compares the complexity of the noun phrase (NP) in Ghanaian English in a real‐
time perspective. Based on the Historical Corpus English in Ghana (1966–1975) and the …

Studies have shown that speakers of New Englishes borrow interjections and other linguistic
forms from their indigenous languages to express what they feel, think, want, believe or …

The chapter provides an overview of the developments in synchronic and diachronic corpus-
linguistic research into World Englishes (WE), detailing methodological concerns such as …

This book is the first comprehensive analysis of nominal plural marking, its morphosyntax
and semantics, across different African varieties of English. Mohr explores the rich diversity …

This contribution proposes to broaden the scope of contact linguistics by discussing the
nexus of language and culture in World Englishes with regard to the influence of Nigerian …

Based on a diachronic newspaper corpus, this study analyses change in the use of the
progressive in the Indian English (IndE) settler strand and indigenous strand varieties from …

Nigerian English (NigE) is a second language (L2) variety of English that has been
domesticated, acculturated and indigenised within the Nigerian socio-cultural and linguistic …

This chapter provides linguists and students not yet familiar with corpus-based research on
varieties of English in Africa with a practical introduction to the field. After explaining the …

Although corpus-based research is becoming more common in many languages and in
translation studies in general, it tends to be scarce or even nonexistent in Akan and many …

The pluralization of the English language has led to several world Englishes. Following
extensive debates on the existence of Ghanaian English since the 1970s, relatively recent …