Reduplication in Nigerian English
Dados Bibliográficos
| AUTOR(ES) | |
|---|---|
| AFILIAÇÃO(ÕES) | Departamento de Filología Inglesa Universidad Autónoma De Madrid Madrid Spain, Facultad de Humanidades Universidad de Puerto Rico Recinto De Rio Piedras San Juan Puerto Rico USA |
| ANO | Não informado |
| TIPO | Artigo |
| PERIÓDICO | World Englishes |
| ISSN | 0883-2919 |
| E-ISSN | 1467-971X |
| DOI | 10.1111/weng.12725 |
| ADICIONADO EM | 2025-08-18 |
Resumo
Reduplication is attested in Nigerian English even though it does not constitute a productive part of the grammar of Inner Circle Englishes. The goal of the present paper is to examine the functions of reduplication in Nigerian English through qualitative analysis. Reduplication is widespread in the ancestral languages spoken in Nigeria. Nevertheless, we postulate that the presence and maintenance of reduplication in Nigerian English are correlated to its presence in Nigerian Pidgin. This can be attributed to linguistic practices such as code‐switching and structural borrowing, motivated by linguistic factors such as the mutual intelligibility between both languages, as well as social factors like language ideology and the intensity of contact between both languages. Such structural transfer highlights the influence of Nigerian Pidgin on Nigerian English, and indeed, of English lexified pidgins and creoles on world Englishes.