Predicting Definite Article Usages in New Englishes: Variety Outweighs Genre and Syntactic Function in Nigerian English
Variability in the use of the definite article in New Englishes, and in particular, Nigerian English has received the least attention from a quantitative, probabilistic and predictive perspective. The present study narrows this gap by not only assessing the extent to which article use in Nigerian...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Institute of English Studies
2017-10-01
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Series: | Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies |
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Online Access: | http://www.anglica.ia.uw.edu.pl/images/pdf/26-2-articles/Anglica_26-2_MAkinlotan_101-121.pdf |