In:Corpus Linguistics and African Englishes
Edited by Alexandra U. Esimaje, Ulrike Gut and Bassey E. Antia
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics 88] 2019
► pp. v–viii
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Published online: 13 February 2019
https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.88.toc
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Table of contents
Prefaceix
Introduction: Corpus linguistics and African Englishes1
Alexandra Esimaje
Ulrike Gut
Bassey E. Antia
Part I.Corpus linguistics and corpus building
Chapter 1.1What is corpus linguistics?7
Alexandra Esimaje
Susan Hunston
Chapter 1.2Corpus linguistics research in Africa: A practical introduction37
Robert Fuchs
Bertus van Rooy
Ulrike Gut
Chapter 1.3The purpose, fesign and use of the Corpus of Nigerian and Cameroonian English Learner Language (Conacell)71
Alexandra Esimaje
Chapter 1.4Introducing a corpus of English(es) spoken in post-independence Namibia: Insights into corpus design and quantitative
analyses97
Helene Steigertahl
Chapter 1.5The historical corpus of English in Ghana (HiCE Ghana): Motivation, compilation, opportunities119
Thorsten Brato
Chapter 1.6Addressing a coverage gap in African Englishes: The tagged corpus of Cameroon Pidgin English143
Gabriel Ozón
Sara FitzGerald
Melanie Green
Chapter 1.7Practical corpus linguistics: Designing and exploiting a written corpus for research with special reference to Cameroon
English165
Daniel Nkemleke
Part II.Corpus-based analysis of African Englishes
Chapter 2.1Evaluating explanations for past-time reference with unmarked verb forms in African Englishes185
Bertus van Rooy
Chapter 2.2The use of stance markers in West African Englishes205
Ulrike Gut
Foluke Unuabonah
Chapter 2.3Namibian English on the web: Lexical and morpho-syntactic features in a corpus of Namibian online newspapers
(CNamON)231
Alexander Kautzsch
Chapter 2.4Lexical expansion in Ghanaian English from a diachronic perspective: A structural and semantic analysis259
Thorsten Brato
Chapter 2.5Capturing the lexicon of Ugandan English: ICE-Uganda, its limitations, and effective complements293
Bebwa Isingoma
Christiane Meierkord
Part III.Applications of corpora in English language teaching and learning
Chapter 3.1A corpus-based analysis of conjunctive cohesion in English essays of Nigerian university learners331
Adeyemi Iyabo
Chapter 3.2African corpora for standards in African academic English: Case studies on prepositions355
Josef Schmied
Chapter 3.3Semiotic signature of transformation in a diachronic corpus of a South African political party373
Bassey E. Antia
Tamsyn Hendricks
Index401
