Alfred Buregeya
List of John Benjamins publications for which Alfred Buregeya plays a role.
How real has the long-anticipated fast-growing influence of American English on Kenyan English been? A corpus-backed focus on vocabulary English World-Wide 43:2, pp. 192–219 | Article
2022 In the 1990s, the existing literature anticipated a fast-growing influence of American English on Kenyan English in the following years. Mazrui and Mazrui (1996) even predicted a “coca-colanization” of Kenyan English. Focusing on vocabulary, the present study investigated whether the anticipated… read more
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Grammatical features of Kenyan English and the extent of their acceptability English World-Wide 27:2, pp. 199–216 | Article
2006 This study sought to provide evidence for the existence of specific grammatical features which one could definitely say are characteristic of Kenyan English. Using a questionnaire, it gauged the extent of acceptability of twenty-six features by between 75 and 188 respondents. The twenty-six… read more