A review of the loss of an in ‘the unguarded speech of Americans’, in such phrases as ‘a apparition’

An examination of lexical innovation in the everyday English of the largest anglophone country in West Africa

THOMAS M. PAIKEDAY lists some more neologisms, novel senses, and similar occurrences that do not yet appear in mainstream dictionaries.

THOMAS M. PAIKEDAY lists some more neologisms that do not yet appear in mainstream dictionaries.

In this issue, DALE ROBERTS considers a range of recent, especially American usages.

In this issue, DALE ROBERTS considers a range of recent, especially American usages.

TOM McARTHUR looks at some creative developments among phrasal verbs, novelty in Japanese car names and a sample of translation from American into Australian

An account of how Hawai'i Creole arose and has been evolving into a literary dialect

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

A description of the ‘vigorous and variegated’ English-language press in Africa's largest anglophone country

A description of how a text-retrieval program can search a tagged corpus for words, word elements, and their grammatical roles

An outline of the three social dialects and hybrid style of a vigorous ‘New English’

For the first time a representative of the publishing trade was invited to speak at the opening of a General IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations) Conference. The Secretary General of IPA, Mr J. A. KOUTCHOUMOW, addressed the IFLA assembly of 3,500 librarians in Barcelona 23 August 1993:

An account of how and why a mysterious new word more or less replaced a once-universal predecessor

A report on ICLE (the International Corpus of Learner English), a project that collects written work from, and analyses the usage of, advanced adult EFL learners

Survivals of Augustan usage in the everyday language of the West Indies

THOMAS M. PAIKEDAY lists some more neologisms that do not yet appear in mainstream dictionaries.