This is the first comprehensive grammar of Nigerian Pidgin. This book provides basic descriptive and analytical treatment of the syntax, morphology and phonology of a language which may soon become the most widely spoken in all of Africa.
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The goal of this work is the synthesis of the first comprehensive grammar of Nigerian Pidgin. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
phrase stress group, acrolectal speech, serialized verbs, relative clause introducer, verb mek, most lects, bound object pronouns, equative relations, object whose referent, postverbal auxiliaries, serialized constructions, nonemphatic subject pronouns, verb construction containing, nonemphatic pronouns, reciprocal pronominals, completive auxiliaries, acrolectal varieties, adverbial slot, realis modality, noun phrase elements, midwestern data, auxiliary bin, superlative relations, dèm chop, reduplicated compounds Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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The goal of this work is the synthesis of the first comprehensive grammar of Nigerian Pidgin. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
phrase stress group, acrolectal speech, serialized verbs, relative clause introducer, verb mek, most lects, bound object pronouns, equative relations, object whose referent, postverbal auxiliaries, serialized constructions, nonemphatic subject pronouns, verb construction containing, nonemphatic pronouns, reciprocal pronominals, completive auxiliaries, acrolectal varieties, adverbial slot, realis modality, noun phrase elements, midwestern data, auxiliary bin, superlative relations, dèm chop, reduplicated compounds Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Nigerian Pidgin, Port Harcourt, Nigerian Standard English, Tok Pisin New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Surprise Me!
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- Social and Linguistic History of Nigerian Pidgin English: As Spoken by the Yoruba With Special Reference to the English Derived Lexicon by Anna Barbag-Stoll in Back Matter
- The Changing Languages of Europe by Bernd Heine on 6 pages
- Studies On Reduplication (Empirical Approaches to Language Typology) by Bernhard Hurch on page 23, page 26, and page 526
- Contact Linguistics: Bilingual Encounters and Grammatical Outcomes (Oxford Linguistics) by Carol Myers-Scotton on page 273, page 285, and Back Matter
- Contact Linguistics: Bilingual Encounters and Grammatical Outcomes (Oxford Linguistics) by Carol Myers-Scotton on page 273, page 285, and Back Matter
- The Politics of English as a World Language: New Horizons in Postcolonial Cultural Studies (Cross/Cultures 65) by Christian Mair on page 289, and page 300
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