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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Opening New Worlds of Meaning-A Scoping Review of Figurative Language in Autism Spectrum Disorder. [PDF]
Behav Sci (Basel)Skogli-Christensen B +3 more
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Effects of Pragmatic Inference on Phoneme Identification [PDF]
, 2010 Ettlinger, Marc, Rohde, Hannah
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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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Secondary imperfectivisation is reverbalisation. [PDF]
Morphology (Dordr)Arsenijević B +2 more
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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
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Negative Pragmatic Transfer in Bilinguals: Cross-Linguistic Influence in the Acquisition of Quantifiers. [PDF]
J Psycholinguist ResMazzaggio G, Stateva P.
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The Semantics of Sentence Mood in Typologically Differing Languages [PDF]
, 1983 Hattori, Shirô, Zaefferer, Dietmar
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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
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Tactile Cues and Object Use in Multimodal Communicative Behaviors: Parent-Infant Interactions From 9 to 12 months of Age. [PDF]
InfancyMurillo E +4 more
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