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Publication details [#11654]

Bamiro, Edmund O. 1997. Lexical Innovation in Ghanaian English: Some Examples from Recent Fiction. American Speech 72 (1) : 105–112. 8 pp.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

dialectology | lexical innovation | literary language

Language as a subject

English, Ghanaian | English, Nigerian | English, West African

Place, Publisher

The University of Alabama Press

ISBN

0003-1283

Annotation

An analysis of lexical innovation in Ghanaian English. Drawing from literary language, eight categories are discerned. It is found that some lexical innovations have been institutionalized in West African English.