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Just how innovative are the ‘New Englishes’?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2008

Abstract

SAMUEL AHULU raises some points relating to Edmund O. Bamiro's ‘Innovation in Nigerian English’ (ET39, Jul 94)

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Angles of Vision
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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