1 edition. — Edinburgh University Press, 2007. — 144 p.
Over the past few decades, Singapore English has been emerging as an independent variety of English with its own distinct style of pronunciation, grammar and word usage.
All the findings presented in the book are illustrated with extensive examples from one hour of recorded conversational data from the Lim Siew Hwee...
Cambridge University Press, 2016. — 168 p. — (Studies in English Language). — ISBN10: 1107558735. — ISBN13: 978-1107558731. In recent years the study of English and its global varieties has grown rapidly as a field of study. The English language in Singapore, famous for its vernacular known as 'Singlish', is of particular interest to linguists because it takes accent, dialect...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2004. — 188 p. — (Varieties of English Around the World G33). 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...
Routledge, 2020. — 160 p. In a social setting where speakers with several languages interact extensively, a major source of variation in Colloquial Singapore English comes from the complex interaction between crosslinguistic influences and various social and linguistic factors. By unifying both social and linguistic aspects of the phenomenon through the use of multivariate...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 343 р. — (Series: Studies in English Language) This book provides a fresh approach to Singapore English, by focusing on its cultural connotations. The author, a native Singaporean, explores a range of aspects of this rich variety of English - including address forms, cultural categories, particles and interjections – and links particular...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2017. — 218 p. — (Studies in Language Companion Series). — ISBN10: 9027259488, 13 978-9027259486. The study of negation across languages has left no stone unturned with respect to a range of frequently-researched areas, such as negative raising, negative concord, and the behavior of quantifiers under negative scope. Past research has chiefly...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2000. — 310 p. — (Studies in Language Companion Series 51). This book marks a new development in the field of grammaticalisation studies, in that it extends the field of grammaticalisation studies from relatively homogeneous languages to those possessing well-established and institutionalised second language varieties. In Hypothetical...
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