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Publication details [#60697]
Dako, Kari. 2015. Should it be Omanhenes, Amanhenes or Amanhene? - or are they in free variation? Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa 46 (1) : 44–59. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Routledge
Annotation
Centering on how Akan (plural) nouns referring to persons appear in (urban) Ghanaian English, it is argued that code-switching and lexical borrowing are not so clearly identifiable, as many transferred items display either Akan or English plurals and on occasion a mixing up of the two. The shifting plural forms are best accounted for in terms of a style-shift based on Bell's (1999; 2001) Audience Design framework.