Table of contents
Preface
ix
Introduction: Corpus linguistics and African Englishes
1
Part I.Corpus linguistics and corpus building
Chapter 1.1What is corpus linguistics?
7
Chapter 1.2Corpus linguistics research in Africa: A practical introduction
37
Chapter 1.3The purpose, fesign and use of the Corpus of Nigerian and Cameroonian English Learner Language (Conacell)
71
Chapter 1.4Introducing a corpus of English(es) spoken in post-independence Namibia: Insights into corpus design and quantitative
analyses
97
Chapter 1.5The historical corpus of English in Ghana (HiCE Ghana): Motivation, compilation, opportunities
119
Chapter 1.6Addressing a coverage gap in African Englishes: The tagged corpus of Cameroon Pidgin English
143
Chapter 1.7Practical corpus linguistics: Designing and exploiting a written corpus for research with special reference to Cameroon
English
165
Part II.Corpus-based analysis of African Englishes
Chapter 2.1Evaluating explanations for past-time reference with unmarked verb forms in African Englishes
185
Chapter 2.2The use of stance markers in West African Englishes
205
Chapter 2.3Namibian English on the web: Lexical and morpho-syntactic features in a corpus of Namibian online newspapers
(CNamON)
231
Chapter 2.4Lexical expansion in Ghanaian English from a diachronic perspective: A structural and semantic analysis
259
Chapter 2.5Capturing the lexicon of Ugandan English: ICE-Uganda, its limitations, and effective complements
293
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 learners
331
Chapter 3.2African corpora for standards in African academic English: Case studies on prepositions
355
Chapter 3.3Semiotic signature of transformation in a diachronic corpus of a South African political party
373
Index
401
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