Between exonormative traditions and local acceptance: A corpus-linguistic study of modals of obligation and spatial prepositions in spoken Ugandan English

Research into Ugandan English places it in the nativisation phase of the evolution of Englishes, amidst a nexus of local acceptance with ingredients of endonormativity and ingrained exonormative traditions. The current study shows how the use of modal verbs of obligation and spatial prepositions pro...

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Main Authors: Isingoma Bebwa, Meierkord Christiane
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2022-05-01
Series:Open Linguistics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2022-0185