1st Edition
Nominal Pluralization and Countability in African Varieties of English
By Susanne Mohr
Copyright 2022
204 Pages
15 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
204 Pages
15 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
204 Pages
15 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book is the first comprehensive analysis of nominal plural marking, its morphosyntax and semantics, across different African varieties of English. Mohr explores the rich diversity in the varieties and how different conceptualizations of the number category are realized across different cultures.
The investigation of unstandardized noun plurals in Kenyan, Tanzanian, Ghanaian and Nigerian... Read more
1: Introduction 2: English in Africa 3: Number and related concepts 4: Unstandardized plurals in African English corpus data 5: Evaluating the acceptability of unstandardized plurals in present-day Tanzanian and Ghanaian Englishes 6: The conceptual background of unstandardized plurality in Tanzanian and Ghanaian Englishes: Mass and countability Conclusion
Biography
Susanne Mohr is Professor of English Sociolinguistics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. Her research interests include varieties of Englishes, African languages and sign languages, as well as language contact and multimodality.
