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Verb patterning and acculturation in Nigerian English
World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 54-75, March 2026.Abstract Speech communities have the tendency to develop habits as to which words tend to co‐occur, in the form of coinages and collocational patterns, thus constituting an aspect conducive to the subtle emergence of language variation. As these co‐occurrence tendencies become lexicalised and confined to specific, rigid word combinations, new ...
Mary Ifeoluwa Abidoye, Hans‐Georg Wolf
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Lexicon dataset for the Hausa language
Data in BriefThis paper presents a comprehensive augmented lexicon sentiment analysis dataset for the Hausa language. The dataset was created by adopting words and phrases from a Hausa Language dictionary and then using the data augmentation method to expand the ...
Idi Mohammed, Rajesh Prasad
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Merchants of colonial Borno : men, means and methods [PDF]
, 2006 This paper examines Borno's colonial economy with particular reference to the activity of indigenous traders. Stress is laid on trade within Borno and between the province and other markets in Nigeria and the adjoining colonies of Cameroon, Chad and ...
Mukhtar, Yakubu
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Consonant clusters in Nigerian English
World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 19-38, March 2026.Abstract This study explores consonant cluster production and its influencing factors in Nigerian English using a corpus‐based approach. More than 4000 onset and coda consonant clusters produced in the broadcast talks, broadcast discussions and broadcast news from ICE‐Nigeria by a total of 44 speakers were analysed with reference to cluster position ...
Ulrike Gut, Philipp Meer
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Studies in African Linguistics, 1989 In their presentation of three-dimensional phonology, Halle and Vergnaud [1980, 1981] propose that Hausa singular nouns are morphologically complex like the plural forms, composed of a stem plus a singular suffix.
Donald A. Burquest
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Wahaya: Domestic and sexual slavery in Niger [PDF]
, 2012 This document is part of a digital collection provided by the Martin P. Catherwood Library, ILR School, Cornell University, pertaining to the effects of globalization on the workplace worldwide.
Abdelkader, Galy Kadir, Zangaou, Moussa
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Waqf, Values and the Ulama: Towards Harnessing Philanthropy for Community Uplift in Northern Nigeria [PDF]
, 2013 Employing narratives, and analysis of available literature, this exploratory study is limited in scope by the few accounts ...
Muhammad Ibrahim Nuruddeen
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Nigerian English: History, functions and features
World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 7-18, March 2026.Abstract This article offers a comprehensive overview of Nigerian English, a rapidly expanding variety of world Englishes, recognised as one of the fastest‐growing varieties of English globally in numerical terms. This article has four aims. First, it discusses the historical developments of English in Nigeria with reference to the events that led to ...
Kingsley O. Ugwuanyi +1 more
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Da ɗan gari akan ci gari: nazarin al'adu a al’ummar Hausawa
Studies in African Languages and Cultures, 2006 This paper centers on Hausa culture, putting emphasis on foreign students wishing to study Hausa culture, and to see how they will visualize "culture shock".
Aliyu Mu’azu
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Dynamics of the Diphtheria Epidemic in Nigeria: Insights from the Kano State Outbreak Data
MathematicsDiphtheria is a severely infectious and deadly bacterial disease with Corynebacterium diphtheriae as the causative agent. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, contagious diseases such as diphtheria have re-emerged due to disruptions in routine childhood ...
Sani Musa +4 more
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