Noun phrase complexity in Nigerian English: Syntactic function and length outweigh genre in predicting noun phrase complexity Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Structural simplicity/complexity is an important variable with which New Englishes and native varieties are identified and conceptualised, but predicting such variation in complexity has received little attention in the literature. New Englishes, especially the outer circle varieties such as Nigerian or Indian English, differ in form and function from the inner circle varieties, such as British or American English, but the extent of such ...