Implicit Arguments in Ugandan English

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dc.contributor.authorIsingoma, Bebwa
dc.date.accessioned2022-06-06T05:02:14Z
dc.date.available2022-06-06T05:02:14Z
dc.date.issued2021-12-30
dc.description.abstractIn standard British/American English, some transitive verbs, which are ontologically specified for objects, may be used with the objects not overtly expressed (for example, leave), while other transitive verbs do not permit this syntactic behavior (for example, vacate). The former have been referred to as verbs that allow implicit arguments. This study shows that while verbs such as vacate do not ideally allow implicit arguments in standard British/American English, this is permitted in Ugandan English (a non-native variety), thereby highlighting structural asymmetries between British/American English and Ugandan English, owing mainly to substrate influence and analogization. The current study highlights those structural asymmetries and ultimately uncovers some characteristic features in the structural nativization process of English in Uganda, thereby contributing to the growing larger discourse meant to fill the gaps that had characterized World Englishes scholarship, where thorough delineations of Ugandan English have been virtually absent.en_US
dc.identifier.citationIsingoma, B. (2021). Implicit Arguments in Ugandan English. English Studies at NBU, 7(2), 147- 166. https://doi.org/10.33919/esnbu.21.2.2en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://ir.gu.ac.ug/xmlui/handle/20.500.14270/146
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherEnglish Studies at NBU 2021en_US
dc.subjectimplicit arguments,en_US
dc.subjectUgandan English,en_US
dc.subjectstructural nativization,en_US
dc.subjectL2 English,en_US
dc.subjectsubstrate influence,en_US
dc.subjectanalogizationen_US
dc.titleImplicit Arguments in Ugandan Englishen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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