East African English Syntactic Patterns

Here're the East African English syntactic patterns discussed in Jenkins (2009, pp. 29-30):

• A tendency to use a specific/non-specific system for nouns rather than a definite/indefinite system, e.g. I'm not on scholarship.
• A tendency NOT to make a distinction between the third pronouns he and she, e.g. When I first met my husband, she was a student.
• A tendency to extend the use of be + verb + ing constructions to stative verbs, e.g. She is knowing her science very well.
• The formation of different phrasal and prepositional verb constructions, e.g. Her name cropped in the conversation.