Xhosa English Corpus

Xhosa English

For further information, contact Dr Vivian De Klerk (v.deklerk at ru.ac.za)

The corpus can be downloaded in zipped format here: [Xhosa English Corpus Download]

This project resulted in the following publications:

• 2006: de Klerk, V. A. Corpus Linguistics and World Englishes: An Analysis of Xhosa English. Continuum Press: London.
• 2002: de Klerk, V. 'Starting with Xhosa English ... towards a spoken corpus.' International Journal of Corpus Linguistics. 7(1), 21-42.
• 2004: de Klerk, V. The use of actually in spoken Xhosa English: a corpus study. World Englishes. 24(3) 275-288.
• 2005: de Klerk, V. Procedural meanings of well in a Xhosa English corpus. Journal of Pragmatics 37(8): 1183-1205
• 2005: de Klerk, V. Expressing levels of intensity in Xhosa English. English World Wide. 26(1): 77-96.
• 2002: de Klerk, V. Towards a corpus of Black South African English Southern African Journal of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies. 20(1):25-35.