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How Ghanaian is Ghanaian English?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2008

Samuel Ahulu
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Abstract

An argument against the concept of a distinctive ‘Ghanaian English’ and in favour of the view that various postcolonial countries share the same nonstandard usages

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Research Article
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English Today , Volume 10 , Issue 2 , April 1994 , pp. 25 - 29
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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