Although the past few decades have witnessed growing interest in varieties of English around the world no study of the Nigerian variety intended for the international market has yet been published Making use of well known paradigms the book will relate Nigerian English as a Second Language variety to other World Englishes Its chief overall concern however is to provide a detailed descriptive account of the variety seeking to show what is distinctive about it and also in this perspective distinguishing between more educated and less educated usage After giving a sociolinguistic profile of Nigeria where English today enjoys a more prominent role than ever before it will examine in turn the phonology morpho syntax and lexico semantics of Nigerian English with samples of written texts from the eighteenth century to the present It will also give a comprehensive summary of academic research carried out in the field over the past fifty years In this way the book will provide an introduction to the subject for the benefit of scholars and students in universities in many countries and will serve as a useful companion to other books in De Gruyter Mouton s Dialects of English series

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