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The East African component of the International Corpus of English
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The project started in 1989 with research on linguistic variation in East African English and contributed to a broad interdisciplinary project on "Identity in Africa" at the University of Bayreuth, which was supported as a Special Research Programme by the German Research Association (DFG). We continued this project at the department of English language and linguistics at Chemnitz University of Technology. Extensive text compilations from Kenya, Tanzania and Malawi, besides smaller corpora from Nigeria and South Africa, served as a basis for investigations into grammar, vocabulary, and style. A data bank has been developed jointly with our African partners and now comprises hundreds of spoken and written texts by speakers and writers in different situations and contexts.The Kenyan and Tanzanian components of this database have now become the East African component of the International Corpus of English (ICE-EA). The following team of researchers are responsible for the compilation of ICE-EA: Diana Hudson-Ettle (Co-ordinator), Barbara Krohne (Assistant Co-ordinator), Josef Schmied (Project Director).