Making of Vernacular Singapore English - System, Transfer, and Filter

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. The ecology of Singapore English; 3. Grammatical system and substratum transfer; 4. Topic prominence, empty categories and the bare conditional; 5. Substratum, lexifier and typological universals; 6. Frequency, usage and the circumscriptive role of the lexifier; 7. Convergence-to-substratum; 8. Epilogue.

About the author

Zhiming Bao is a Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the National University of Singapore.

Summary

Charts the history of Singapore English and explores the linguistic, historical and social factors that have influenced the variety as it is spoken today. This study will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working on language contact, world varieties of English, historical linguistics and sociolinguistics.

Product details

• Authors: Zhiming Bao, Zhiming (National University of Singapore) Bao, Bao Zhiming
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2019
• EAN: 9781108731669
• ISBN: 978-1-108-73166-9
• No. of pages: 230
• Series: Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, Singapore, South East Asia, Sociolinguistics, Language: reference & general, Language: reference and general, Historical & comparative linguistics, Historical and comparative linguistics