SYNTACTIC VARIATION IN NIGERIAN ENGLISH.

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dc.contributor.authorEMMANUEL OFUOKWU, ONWUDILI
dc.date.accessioned2014-02-11T12:14:29Z
dc.date.available2014-02-11T12:14:29Z
dc.date.issued1996-06
dc.descriptionA THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL, AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN ENGLISH LANGUAGEen_US
dc.description.abstractABSTRACT This study is descriptive; it examines the spectrum of Englishes covered by the term Nigerian English (NigE), from a syntactic perspective. In Nigeria, we are faced with a linguistic continuum ranging from pidgin through Broken/Non-standard English varieties to the standard. Nigerian speakers generally and actively control a wide range of this continuum which manifests itself in considerable linguistic variability. The important question then, is 'how do we account for and systematically describe this continuum or variability?' This work is therefore a useful addition to studies in 'Varieties of English Around the World'. The introductory chapter presents a summary of the development of Local Forms of English (LFEs) in the new nation states, and highlights the call by the Hawaii Conference that 'English' should also mean vthe English of non-native speakers treated in its own right and accepted on a footing of equality'. Chapter Two deals with the theoretical framework, the review of literature in variation studies and relates these to the study of the LFEs. We see a similarity between Derek Bickerton's basilect-mesolect-acrolect schema (without their implicational relations) and three varieties of Nigerian English and opt for a modified linear scalogram. viiien_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1257
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectSYNTACTICen_US
dc.subjectVARIATIONen_US
dc.subjectVARIATIONen_US
dc.subjectENGLISHen_US
dc.titleSYNTACTIC VARIATION IN NIGERIAN ENGLISH.en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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