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The Making of Vernacular Singapore English - System, Transfer, and Filter (Hardcover)
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The Making of Vernacular Singapore English - System, Transfer, and Filter (Hardcover)
Series: Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
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Singapore English is a focal point across the many subfields of
linguistics, as its semantic, syntactic and phonetic/phonological
qualities tell us a great deal about what happens when very
different types of language come together. Sociolinguists are also
interested in the relative status of Singapore English compared to
other languages in the country. This book charts the history of
Singapore English and explores the linguistic, historical and
social factors that have influenced the variety as it is spoken
today. It identifies novel grammatical features of the language,
discusses their structure and function, and traces their origins to
the local languages of Singapore. It places grammatical system and
usage at the core of the analysis, and shows that introspective and
corpus data are complementary. This study will be of interest to
scholars and advanced students working on language contact, world
varieties of English, historical linguistics and sociolinguistics.
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