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ERIC ED378810: Lexical Innovation in Ghanaian English.

An analysis of lexical innovation in Ghanaian English uses ten linguistic categories identified in earlier research on Nigerian English, offering an explanation of each category and a number of examples. The categories include: loanshifts (English words manipulated to produce and transmit meanings beyond purely denotative reference and conveying a range of emotional, attitudinal, and symbolic content); semantic underdifferentiation (neutralization of emotive distinctions between lexical items); lexico-semantic duplication and redundancy ("couldn't be able to"); ellipsis (headword deletion in a…

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Source	Internet Archive
Collection	International records
Kind	Document
Publisher	ERIC
Date	1994-01-01
Type	texts
Details	ia description
Found at	https://archive.org/details/ERIC_ED378810
Archived copy	Look it up in the Wayback Machine
Record ID	`internet-archive:ERIC_ED378810`

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ERIC ED378810: Lexical Innovation in Ghanaian English.. Internet Archive, 1994. Vero Archive, record internet-archive:ERIC_ED378810.