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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, Sopuruchi Christian Aboh   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

THE TREATMENT OF VERBAL COLLOCATIONS (VERB + NOUN) IN THE DICIONÁRIO OXFORD ESCOLAR PARA ESTUDANTES BRASILEIROS DE INGLÊS (2009)

Travessias, 2014
The term collocation designates cases of lexical-syntactic co-occurrence, i.e., words that usually go together. Collocations make speech and writing sound much more natural, but usually cause difficulties for learners of a foreign language, especially in
Márcia dos Santos Dornelles
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A Multilingual Integrated Framework for Processing Lexical Collocations

, 2013
Lexical collocations are typical combinations of words, such as heavy rain, close collaboration, or to meet a deadline. Pervasive in language, they are a key issue for NLP systems since, as other types of multi-word expressions like idioms, they do not allow for word-by-word processing.
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Introduction to the special issue on Nigerian English

World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 2-6, March 2026.
Abstract This article introduces this special issue of World Englishes devoted to Nigerian English. It outlines the significance of this special issue (and of Nigerian English) within global Englishes scholarship. It situates Nigerian English as one of the most demographically, functionally and intellectually important postcolonial varieties of English,
Kingsley O. Ugwuanyi
wiley   +1 more source

Intermediate English as a Foreign Language learners' formulaic language speaking proficiency: Where does the teaching of lexical chunks figure? [PDF]

Front Psychol, 2022
Albelihi HHM.
europepmc   +1 more source

Cultural conceptualisations and the cultural model of fertility and infertility in Nigerian English

World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 163-181, March 2026.
Abstract The article scrutinises the concepts of fertility and infertility as reflected in Nigerian English. For this, a mixed‐methods approach is suggested that uses the Corpus of Global Web‐based English as a resource to shed light on lexical frequency and collocations, as well as a newspaper corpus of online articles from The Guardian and Vanguard ...
Anna Finzel
wiley   +1 more source

Collocations in Parsing and Translation. [PDF]

Front Artif Intell, 2022
Wehrli E.
europepmc   +1 more source

Detecting and Modeling Emotional Landscapes Through Deep Learning, GPT‐4.1, and 3D Spatial Interpolation

Transactions in GIS, Volume 30, Issue 1, February 2026.
ABSTRACT This research provides new directions in conceptualizing emotional geographies at the landscape level using a combination of textual deep learning (DL) and GPT‐based spatial emotion detection and interpolation using 3D empirical Bayesian kriging.
Christopher J. Anderson
wiley   +1 more source

A corpus-based analysis on the use of MAKE in sinologist Cyril Birch's English version of Mistress and Maid (Jiaohongji). [PDF]

PLoS One
Yu C, Wu Y.
europepmc   +1 more source

Effects of L1-L2 congruency, collocation type, and restriction on processing L2 collocations. [PDF]

Front Psychol, 2022
Jiang Y.
europepmc   +1 more source