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Title: | Special issue on aspects of Creole and pidgin languages with reference to West Africa, from presentations at the SPCL conference at the University of Ghana, Legon, August 2nd-6th 2011 |
Editors: | Dako, Kari Yitah, Helen |
Year: | 2012 |
Periodical: | Legon Journal of the Humanities (ISSN 0855-1502) |
Issue: | 2012 |
Pages: | 230 |
Language: | English |
City of publisher: | Legon |
Publisher: | Faculty of Arts, University of Ghana |
Geographic terms: | West Africa Ghana Nigeria Sierra Leone |
Subjects: | pidgin languages Creole languages Pidgin English language history sociolinguistics language usage conference papers (form) 2011 |
Abstract: | This special issue contains papers presented at the conference of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Languages (SPCL) held at the University of Ghana, Legon, 2-6 August 2011. The volume opens with a sociolinguistic overview of the three major West African English pidgins: the Ghanaian, the Nigerian and the Cameroonian (Christine I. Ofulue). This is followed by seven articles: On the origins of locative 'for' in West African pidgin English: a componential approach (Micah Corum); The interaction of declarative & procedural memory in the process of creolization: the case of Sierra Leone Krio (Malcolm Awadajin Finney); Establishing the Kromanti-Akan link: evidence from the occurrence of phonemic /r/ (Audene S. Henry); The question of the superstrate and substrate in Nigerian Pidgin (Davidson U. Mbagwu and Cecilia A. Eme); A study of the history of Naijá words (David Oshorenoya Esizimetor); Pidgin English in Ghanaian churches (George Kodie Frimpong); Pidgin, 'broken' English and othering in Ghanaian literature (Kari Dako and Helen Yitah). [ASC Leiden abstract] |