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Frequent Collocates and Major Senses of Two Prepositions in ESL and ENL Corpora
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Nkemleke, Daniel – Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2009
This contribution assesses in quantitative terms frequent collocates and major senses of "between" and "through" in the corpus of Cameroonian English (CCE), the corpus of East-African (Kenya and Tanzania) English which is part of the International Corpus of English (ICE) project (ICE-EA), and the London Oslo/Bergen (LOB) corpus…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Frequency and Use of Modals in Cameroon English and Application to Language Education
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Nkemleke, Daniel – Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2007
This contribution investigates the frequency patterns of the modal verbs as they occur in the one-million-word corpus of Cameroon written English. An analysis of dominant senses of some of the modals is also attempted. I have used results and statistical figures from British and American English (as reported in studies such as Biber et al. 1999…
Descriptors: Verbs, Foreign Countries, North American English, Language Usage