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Prepositions vanishing in Kenya

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2004

SERAH MWANGI
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Abstract

ACCORDING to Schmied (1991a:52), ‘there is some evidence that language learners in general use simplification strategies at an early stage and try to reproduce memorized phrases from the target language later, irrespective of the linguistic and pragmatic context.’ The English prepositional system is well known for its complexity and language learners might well be inclined to simplify in order to reduce such complexities. Indeed, there is evidence from the East African component of the International Corpus of English (ICE-EA) of such a process of simplification in the use of prepositions in the English of Kenya. As a result, some prepositions might well disappear from use in this second-language variety of English.

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English Today , Volume 20 , Issue 1 , January 2004 , pp. 27 - 32
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© 2004 Cambridge University Press

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