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Peer reviewedBamiro, Edmund O. – English Today, 1994
Examines recent lexical innovations in Nigerian English, focusing on loanshifts, ellipses, conversions, translation equivalents, analogical creations, and coinages. Various examples of each phenomenon are presented. (Contains three references.) (MDM)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Usage, Language Variation, Linguistic Borrowing
