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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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2022-05-01
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| Series: | Open Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2022-0185 |