The Structural Simplification Hypothesis and the Premodifiers in Nigerian English
This paper conducts a corpus-based study of the occurrence/non-occurrence, structural pattern, and forms of the premodifier in the Nigerian English noun phrase, comparing the scenarios that emerge with those of the British and Ghanaian varieties of English. These three phenomena, which are crucia...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Institute of English Studies
2018-10-01
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| Series: | Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies |
| Online Access: | http://www.anglica.ia.uw.edu.pl/images/pdf/27-2-articles/Anglica-27-2-4-Akinlotan.pdf |