Singapore English : a grammatical description / edited by Lisa Lim.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lim, Lisa.

Series:

Varieties of English around the world. General series ; v. 33.

Varieties of English around the world. General series, 0172-7362 ; v. G33

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Singapore--Grammar.

English language.

English language--Variation--Singapore.

English language--Dialects--Singapore.

Singapore--Languages.

Singapore.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (188 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : John Benjamins, 2004.

Summary:

Singapore English: A grammatical description provides a vivid account of current, contemporary Singapore English, complementing older seminal accounts of this variety. Drawing primarily on the Grammar of Spoken Singapore English Corpus, which comprises naturally-occurring conversational speech, the contributions in this volume not only provide comprehensive and systematic descriptions of the structural features characterising colloquial Singapore English of the young, native speaker of today, but also propose the likely substrate sources of these features through insightful linguistic and historical examination. Clearly illustrating the particular rules of grammar that characterise Singapore English as a variety in its own right, this volume presents its evolution as a perfectly natural linguistic phenomenon which is best understood within the multiethnic and multilingual society that Singapore is and has been for the past two centuries. Theoretical linguists, sociolinguists, dialectologists, variationists, typologists and creolists, as well as those involved in education and policy-making, should find this description relevant and vital.

Contents:

Singapore English: A grammatical description

Editorial page

Title page

LCC page

Table of contents

Acknowledgements

Tables &amp

Figures

1. English in Singapore and Singapore English

Notes

2. Sounding Singaporean

3. Nouns and noun phrases

4. The verbal cluster

Appendix

5. Reduplication and discourse particles

6. The evolution of Singapore English

References

Corpus

Name index

Subject index

The series Varieties of English Around the World.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612159985

9781282159983

1282159984

9789027294807

9027294801

OCLC:

70773752