Nominal Pluralization and Countability in African Varieties of English

This book is the first comprehensive analysis of plural marking, its morphosyntax and semantics, in African varieties of English. By doing so, we are granted insights into the diversity of African Englishes, which are far too often treated as monolithic.

Susanne Mohr is Professor of English Sociolinguistics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. Her research interests include varieties of Englishes, African languages and sign languages, as well as language contact and multimodality.

1: Introduction 2: English in Africa 3: Number and related concepts 4: Unstandardized plurals in African English corpus data 5: Evaluating the acceptability of unstandardized plurals in present-day Tanzanian and Ghanaian Englishes 6: The conceptual background of unstandardized plurality in Tanzanian and Ghanaian Englishes: Mass and countability Conclusion