Doctoral thesis (PhD)

• Amos Atuhairwe; Bebwa Isingoma; Saudah Namyalo (2021). Applicative constructions in Ruruuli-Lunyala: Structure and meaning. (external link)
• Bebwa Isingoma (2012). Argument Structure: A Comparative Study of Triadic Constructions in Rutooro and English. (external link)
• Bebwa Isingoma; Dagmar Haumann (2012). Argument structure : a comparative study of triadic constructions in Rutooro and English. (external link)

Lecture

• Bebwa Isingoma (2015). Language and cultural identity: The Case of Rutooro. (external link)

Conference lecture

• Bebwa Isingoma (2018). The use of English at the grassroots level: A comparison between Northern and Western Uganda. (external link)
• Bebwa Isingoma (2024). Academic and scientific terminology development in the Acoli language. (external link)
• Bebwa Isingoma; Susan Erdmann (2012). Academic Writing: Expectations vs. Practices. (external link)
• Bebwa Isingoma (2019). Politeness Strategies in Ugandan English. (external link)
• Bebwa Isingoma (2011). The Pragmatics of Ugandan English. (external link)
• Bebwa Isingoma (2025). Pragmatic variation in the speech acts of greeting and leave-taking: Evidence from Ugandan English.. (external link)
• Bebwa Isingoma (2011). Semantic and Pragmatic Properties of Triadic Constructions: A Comparative Study of Rutooro and English. (external link)
• Bebwa Isingoma (2023). Address terms in Ugandan English. (external link)
• Bebwa Isingoma (2022). Ugandan English.. (external link)
• Bebwa Isingoma (2025). Death has occurred of my grandfather: Article omission in Ugandan English vis-à-vis standard L1 English(e).. (external link)
• Bebwa Isingoma (2011). Triadic Constructions in Bantu. (external link)
• Bebwa Isingoma (2010). Argument Structure: A Comparative Study of English and Rutooro. (external link)

Academic article

• Bebwa Isingoma (2017). The pragmatics of kandi: A relevance-theoretic account. (external link)
• Bebwa Isingoma (2021). Structural Properties of Rutooro Ditransitive Constructions: a lexical functional analysis | Linguistica Atlantica. (external link)
• Bebwa Isingoma (2023). Book Review: The Dynamics of English in Namibia: Perspectives on an Emerging Variety. (external link)
• Christiane Meierkord; Bebwa Isingoma (2022). Between first language influence, exonormative orientation and migration. (external link)
• Peace Yikiru; Bebwa Isingoma (2023). The use of ditransitive constructions among L1 Lugbarati speakers of English in Uganda: A preliminary study. (external link)
• Monica Adokorach; Bebwa Isingoma (2023). Homogeneity and heterogeneity in lexical stress placement among Ugandan speakers of English as an L2: a view from usage-based perspective. (external link)
• Bebwa Isingoma (2014). Lexical and grammatical features of Ugandan English. (external link)
• Bebwa Isingoma (2021). Order of postverbal arguments and object markers in ditransitive constructions in Rutooro. (external link)
• Bebwa Isingoma (2021). Implicit Arguments in Ugandan English. (external link)
• Sarah Amarorwot; Bebwa Isingoma (2021). Structural nativization of English in Uganda: Evidence from number agreement and interrogatives among Acholi speakers of English. (external link)
• Sarah Amarorwot; Bebwa Isingoma (2021). Order of adjectives and adverbs in L2 English: Evidence from L1 Acholi speakers of Ugandan English. (external link)
• Bebwa Isingoma (2025). Trajectorial dynamics of English in Rwanda. (external link)
• Bebwa Isingoma; Christiane Meierkord (2025). Special issue: Introduction More insights into world Englishes at the grassroots. (external link)
• Bebwa Isingoma (2014). Empaako ‘praise names’: An historical, sociolinguistic and pragmatic analysis. (external link)
• Bebwa Isingoma (2018). Accounting for variability in the linearization of ditransitive constructions in English among native speakers. (external link)
• Dorica Deborah Mirembe; Bebwa Isingoma (2022). The Use of Conjunctions Among L1 Luganda Speakers of English. (external link)
• Bebwa Isingoma (2013). Innovative Pragmatic Codes in Ugandan English: A Relevance-theoretic Account. (external link)
• Bebwa Isingoma (2017). Languages in East Africa: Policies, practices and perspectives. (external link)
• Bebwa Isingoma (2020). Implicit Arguments in English and Rutooro. (external link)
• Lizzi O. Milligan; Bebwa Isingoma; Tina Aciro et al. (2024). Learners’ everyday experiences of violence in English medium secondary education in Uganda. (external link)
• Bebwa Isingoma (2021). Politeness strategies in Ugandan English: making requests and responding to thanks. (external link)
• Monica Adokorach; Bebwa Isingoma (2022). Homogeneity and heterogeneity in the pronunciation of English among Ugandans. (external link)
• Bebwa Isingoma; Christiane Meierkord (2022). Between exonormative traditions and local acceptance: A corpus-linguistic study of modals of obligation and spatial prepositions in spoken Ugandan English. (external link)
• Bebwa Isingoma (2022). Revisiting constraints on postverbal argument coding and linearization in English goal ditransitive constructions. (external link)

Academic book chapter

• Bebwa Isingoma (2012). Triadic Constructions in Rutooro. (external link)
• Bebwa Isingoma (2016). Lexical borrowings and calques in Ugandan English. (external link)
• Bebwa Isingoma (2025). Chapter 10 Greeting and Leave-Taking in Ugandan English. (external link)
• Jude Ssempuuma; Bebwa Isingoma; Christiane Meierkord (2016). The use of the progressive construction in Ugandan English. (external link)
• Saudah Namyalo; Bebwa Isingoma; Christiane Meierkord (2016). Towards assessing the space of English in Uganda’s linguistic ecology: Facts and issues. (external link)
• Bebwa Isingoma; Christiane Meierkord (2019). Capturing the lexicon of Ugandan English. (external link)
• Bebwa Isingoma; Christiane Meierkord (2016). Ugandan English: Challenges to, and food for, current theories. (external link)
• Bebwa Isingoma (2016). The use of ditransitives in Ugandan English. (external link)
• Christiane Meierkord; Bebwa Isingoma (2021). CHAPTER 6 Lexicopragmatics between Cultural Heritage and Exonormative Second Language Acquisition: Address Terms, Greetings and Discourse Markers in Ugandan English. (external link)
• Bebwa Isingoma (2021). The sociolinguistic profile of English at grassroots level: A comparison of Northern and Western Uganda.. (external link)

Master’s thesis

• Monica Adokorach; Bebwa Isingoma (2023). Prosodic features in the pronunciation of English among Ugandans: The case of stress placement. (external link)
• Dorica D. Mirembe; Bebwa Isingoma (2022). English function words in L2 discourse: An investigation into the use of English conjunctions among selected Ugandan speech communities. (external link)
• Julius Okeng; Bebwa Isingoma (2025). Teaching and learning of Ateso in Serere District: Facts and perspectives. (external link)
• Robert Opiyo ; Bebwa Isingoma (2024). A comparative study of the phonotactics of English and Acholi: Implications for the pronunciation of English by native speakers of Acholi. (external link)
• Jennifer Oyaro; Bebwa Isingoma; Oswald Ndoleriire (2020). A description of some phonetic and phonological aspects of the Acholi language. (external link)
• Christopher Omara; Bebwa Isingoma (2024). The use of punctuation marks in English: A case study of undergraduate students at a Ugandan university. (external link)
• Peace Yikiru; Bebwa Isingoma (2023). A comparative study of ditransitive constructions in English and Lugbarati: Implications for Lugbarati speakers of English. (external link)
• Sarah Amarorwot; Bebwa Isingoma (2021). Word ordering and agreement in English among L1 Acholi speakers. (external link)

Other presentation

• Bebwa Isingoma (2018). Implicit Arguments in English and Rutooro: A Contrastive Study. (external link)
• Bebwa Isingoma (2015). Ditransitives and depictive secondary predication in English and Rutooro. (external link)

Book anthology

• Christiane Meierkord; Bebwa Isingoma; Saudah Namyalo (2016). Ugandan English: Its sociolinguistics, structure and uses in a globalising post-protectorate. (external link)

Encyclopedia entry

• Bebwa Isingoma (2025). Ugandan English. (external link)

See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.

REFEREED PUBLICATIONS 

 

A. Monograph

1.  Isingoma, Bebwa. (2012). Argument Structure: A Comparative Study of Triadic Constructions in Rutooro and English. ISBN: 978-82-7117-727-0; ISSN: 1504-9272. PhD Dissertation, University of Agder.

B. Edited Volumes

2.  Meierkord, Christiane, Isingoma, Bebwa and Namyalo, Saudah (eds.). (2016). Ugandan English: Its Sociolinguistics, Structure and Uses in a Globalizing Post-protectorate [Varieties of English Around the World 59] (p. 280). John Benjamins: Amsterdam.

3.  Meierkord, Christiane & Isingoma, Bebwa (eds.). (in preparation; forthcoming 2025). Beyond elite users – World Englishes at the grassroots. Special Issue: English Today.

C. Book Chapters

4.  Isingoma, Bebwa (2025). Greeting and leave-taking in Ugandan English. In Kecskes, Istvan et al. (eds.), Pragmatics of African Varieties of English (p. 215-245). Berlin: De Gruyter.

5.   Meierkord, Christiane, Isingoma, Bebwa & Kagwesage, Anne-Marie (in print). The history of English in Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo. In Hickey, Raymond & Kate Burridge (eds.). The New Cambridge History of the English Language, Volume 6. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

6.  Isingoma, Bebwa. (2025). Ugandan English. In Bolton, Kingsley (ed.) The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of World Englishes. New Jersey: Wiley Blackwell Publishing.

7.  Meierkord, Christiane & Isingoma, Bebwa (2021). Lexicopragmatics between cultural heritage and second language acquisition: address terms, greetings & discourse markers in Ugandan English. In Burridge, Kate & Peters, Pam (eds.). Exploring the Ecology of World Englishes: Language, Society and Culture (p.108-128).  Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

8.  Isingoma, Bebwa (2021). The sociolinguistic profile of English at grassroots level: A comparison of Northern and Western Uganda. In Meierkord, Christiane & Schneider, Edgar W. (eds.). World Englishes at the Grassroots (p. 49-69). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

9.  Isingoma, Bebwa & Meierkord, Christiane. (2019). Capturing the lexicon of Ugandan English: ICE-Uganda, its limitations and effective complements. In Esimaje, U. A., Gut, U. and Antia, E. B. (eds.) Corpus Linguistics and African Englishes [Studies in Corpus Linguistics 88] (p. 293-328). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

10. Isingoma, Bebwa (2016). Borrowings and calques in Ugandan English. In Meierkord, Christiane, Isingoma, Bebwa and Namyalo, Saudah (eds.). Ugandan English: Its Sociolinguistics, Structure and Uses in a Globalizing Post-protectorate [Varieties of English Around the World 59] (p. 149-172). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

11. Isingoma, Bebwa (2016). The use of ditransitives in Ugandan English. In Meierkord, Christiane, Isingoma, Bebwa and Namyalo, Saudah (eds.). Ugandan English: Its Sociolinguistics, Structure and Uses in a Globalizing Post-protectorate [Varieties of English Around the World 59] (p.201-226). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

12. Isingoma, Bebwa & Meierkord, Christiane (2016). Ugandan English: Challenges to, and food for, current theories. In Meierkord, Christiane, Isingoma, Bebwa and Namyalo, Saudah (eds.). Ugandan English: Its Sociolinguistics, Structure and Uses in a Globalizing Post-protectorate [Varieties of English Around the World 59] (p.1-16). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

13. Namyalo, Saudah, Isingoma, Bebwa & Meierkord, Christiane (2016). Towards assessing the space of English in Uganda’s linguistic ecology: Facts and issues. In Meierkord, Christiane, Isingoma, Bebwa and Namyalo, Saudah (eds.). Ugandan English: Its Sociolinguistics, Structure and Uses in a Globalizing Post-protectorate [Varieties of English Around the World 59] (p.19-50). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

14. Ssempuuma, Jude, Isingoma, Bebwa & Meierkord, Christiane (2016). The use of the progressive construction in Ugandan English. In Meierkord, Christiane, Isingoma, Bebwa and Namyalo, Saudah (eds.). Ugandan English: Its Sociolinguistics, Structure and Uses in a Globalizing Post-protectorate [Varieties of English Around the World 57] (p.173-200). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

15.  Isingoma, Bebwa. 2012. Triadic constructions in Rutooro. In Michael R. Marlo et al. (eds.). African Languages in Context: Selected Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference on African Linguistics. Somerville, Massachusetts: Cascadilla Press, pp. 149-160.

D. Journal Articles

16. Isingoma, Bebwa, Milligan, Lizzi, Mirembe, D. Dorica, Aciro, Tina, Nuwategeka, Expedito (2025). Violence in Uganda’s English-only medium secondary schools: Advancing multilingual education for reparative futures. NORRAG Special Issue 11: Multilingualism and Language Transition: Innovations and Possibilities, 28-31.

17. Isingoma, Bebwa. (2025). Trajectorial dynamics of English in Rwanda as a non-postcolonial Outer Circle country. English Today 41(1): 28-34.

18.  Milligan, O. Lizzi, Isingoma, Bebwa, Aciro, Tina, Mirembe, Dorica, Krause, Nadia & Nuwategeka, Expedito (2024). Learners’ everyday experiences of violence in  English-medium secondary education in Uganda. Global Social Challenges Journal 3(1): 31-48.

19. Yikiru, Peace & Isingoma, Bebwa. (2024). Ditransitive constructions in Lugbarati: A preliminary study. Nordic Journal of African Studies 33(1): 47-67.

20.  Adokorach, Monica & Isingoma, Bebwa (2023). Homogeneity and heterogeneity in lexical stress placement among Ugandan speakers of English as an L2.  Explorations in English Language and Linguistics (ExELL) 11.1, 35-62.

21. Yikiru, Peace & Isingoma, Bebwa (2023). The use of ditransitive constructions among L1 Lugbara speakers of English in Uganda: A preliminary study. Studies in  Linguistics, Culture, and FLT, 11(2), 33-48.

22.  Isingoma, Bebwa (2022). Revisiting constraints on postverbal argument coding and linearization in English goal ditransitive constructions. Studies in Linguistics, Culture, and FLT 10.2, 7-16.

23.  Mirembe, D. Dorica & Isingoma, Bebwa. (2022). The use of conjunctions among L1 Luganda speakers of English. Studies in Linguistics, Culture, and FLT 10.1, 7-24. 

24.  Isingoma, Bebwa & Meierkord, Christiane. (2022). Between exonormative traditions and local acceptance: A corpus-linguistic study of modals of obligation and spatial prepositions in spoken Ugandan English. Open Linguistics 8, 87-107.

25.  Meierkord, Christiane & Isingoma, Bebwa. (2022) Between first language influence, exonormative orientation and migration - future time expressions in post-protectorate Ugandan English. English World-Wide 43.2, 220-248.

26. Adokorach, Monica & Isingoma, Bebwa (2022). Homogeneity and heterogeneity in the pronunciation of English among Ugandans: A preliminary study. English Today38.1, 15-26.

27. Amarorwot, Sarah & Isingoma, Bebwa. (2021). Structural Nativization of English in Uganda: Evidence from Number Agreement and Interrogatives among Acholi Speakers of English. Journal of Studies in the English Language 16.2, 52-82.

28. Amarorwot, Sarah & Isingoma, Bebwa. (2021). Order of adjectives and adverbs in L2 English: Evidence from L1 Acholi speakers of Ugandan English. Studies in Linguistics, Culture, and FLT 9.3, 44-62.

29. Isingoma, Bebwa (2021). Implicit arguments in Ugandan English. English Studies at NBU 7.2, 147-166.

30. Isingoma, Bebwa (2021). Politeness strategies in Ugandan English: Making requests and responding to thanks. Brno Studies in English 47.1., 7-29.

31. Isingoma, Bebwa (2021). Order of postverbal arguments and object markers in ditransitive constructions in Rutooro. African Study Monographs 41.1, 25-42

32. Isingoma, Bebwa (2021). Structural properties of Rutooro ditransitive constructions: A lexical functional analysis. Linguistica Atlantica 39.1, 1-21     

33. Isingoma, Bebwa (2020). Implicit arguments in English and Rutooro: A contrastive study. Linguistik online 101.1, 19-47.

34. Isingoma, Bebwa. (2018). Accounting for variability in the linearization of ditransitive constructions in English among native speakers. Argumentum 14, 383-399.

35. Isingoma, Bebwa. (2017). The pragmatics of kandi: A relevance-theoretic account. Argumentum 13, 174-184.

36.  Isingoma, Bebwa. (2016). Languages in East Africa: Policies, practices and perspectives. Sociolinguistic Studies 10 (3), 433-454.

37. Isingoma, Bebwa. (2014). Empaako ‘praise names’: An historical, sociolinguistic and pragmatic analysis. African Study Monographs 35 (2), 85-98.

38. Isingoma, Bebwa. (2014). Lexical and grammatical features of Ugandan English. English Today 30(2), 51-56.

39. Isingoma, Bebwa. (2013). Innovative pragmatic codes in Ugandan English: A relevance-theoretic account. Argumentum 9, 19-31. 

E. Book Review

40.  Isingoma, Bebwa. (2023). The dynamics of English in Namibia: Perspectives on an Emerging Variety edited by Anne Schröder. Amsterdam: John Benjamins (hardcover), 2021. x + 305. ISBN: 9789027209191. Journal of English Linguistics 51.2, 191-195.