The use of the progressive in Ugandan English

Ssempuuma, Jude; Isingoma, Bebwa; Meierkord, Christiane

doi:10.1075/veaw.g59.08sse

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“…The publications on UgE reveal characteristics that set it apart from other East African Englishes. Besides lexical borrowings, which are largely from Luganda rather than from Kiswahili, progressives are used significantly less often in UgE than in data from Kenya and Tanzania (Ssempuuma et al, 2016), and analyses of diphthongs reveal significant differences across L1 backgrounds (Meierkord, 2016b). This is in contrast to earlier discussions of UgE under the label 'East African English' (cf.…”

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Attitudes Towards Exogenous and Endogenous Uses of English: Ugandan’s Judgements of English Structures in Varieties of English

Meierkord¹

2019

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Uganda is a former British protectorate, where English has contributed to the country’s linguistic ecology since 1894, when the British established a protectorate over the area of the Buganda kingdom. Over time, Ugandan English has developed as a nativised second language variety, spoken by Uganda’s indigenous population. At the same time, due to migrations, globalisation and the influence of international media and the Internet, its speakers have increasingly been in contact with varieties other than British English: American English, Indian English, Kenyan English, and Nigerian English may all influence Ugandan English. This paper looks at how Ugandan English can be conceptualised as a variety shaped by other varieties. It reports on the results of acceptability tests carried out with 184 informants in the North, the Central and the West of Uganda and discusses how speakers assess individual grammatical structures used in Ugandan English and in those varieties they are potentially in contact with.

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Attitudes Towards Exogenous and Endogenous Uses of English: Ugandan’s Judgements of English Structures in Varieties of English

Meierkord¹

2019

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“…Crucially, the assumption that Ugandan English is mainly influenced by Luganda, the language spoken in the capital city of Uganda (cf. Fisher 2000, Isingoma 2013, has been proved to be incorrect (Isingoma 2014, Ssempuuma et al 2016, Meierkord 2016b, Isingoma 2016a). Specifically, Isingoma (2014Isingoma ( , 2016a shows that Ugandan indigenous languages synergistically influence Ugandan English if the features displayed by the variety are shared by the Ugandan indigenous languages.…”

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“…On the other hand, if the features are not shared, then speakers of individual L1s will display heterogeneous features in their English(es) (cf. Ssempuuma et al 2016, Meierkord 2016b). As mentioned above, for the current purposes, only homogeneous features are considered, while inter-speaker variations stemming from differences between indigenous languages (if any) would be a subject of future research.…”

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Politeness strategies in Ugandan English: making requests and responding to thanks

Isingoma¹

2021

Brno Studies in English

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This study examines politeness strategies and specific expressions employed by Ugandans when making requests and responding to thanks, against the backdrop that contact phenomena, as one of the key factors that characterize L2 varieties such as Ugandan English, make it virtually inevitable to have peculiarities in this respect. Specifically, in relation to the illocutionary acts of request, Ugandan English relies more on direct strategies (due to substrate influence), with various idiosyncratic mitigating devices such as the use of the past progressive with performative verbs, the use of the lexical mitigator first with imperatives, and the use of verbs with inherent supplicatory semantics in the imperative mood. As regards responses to thanks, while there is a clear preference for exonormative standards, formulae arising from substrate influence are visibly present, while several of the formulae used in L1 English (e.g. Standard British English) are not used in Ugandan English.

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The use of stative progressives by school-age learners of English and the importance of the variable context

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Werner

2020

Tense and Aspect in Second Language Acquisition and Learner Corpus Research

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The use of the progressive in Ugandan English

Cited by 8 publications

References 31 publications

Attitudes Towards Exogenous and Endogenous Uses of English: Ugandan’s Judgements of English Structures in Varieties of English

Attitudes Towards Exogenous and Endogenous Uses of English: Ugandan’s Judgements of English Structures in Varieties of English

Politeness strategies in Ugandan English: making requests and responding to thanks

The use of stative progressives by school-age learners of English and the importance of the variable context

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