The Making of Vernacular Singapore English: System, Transfer, and Filter

ISBN-13: 9781108731669 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 230 str.

Zhiming Bao

Opis

Charts the history of Singapore English and explores the linguistic, historical and social factors that have influenced its variety.

Recenzje

'Superstrate filter guides selection from systemic substrate transfer in emergent 'Singlish': Bao's brilliant, theoretically ambitious analysis represents cutting-edge thinking uniting contact theory, usage-based linguistics, exemplar theory, typology, and construction grammar.' Edgar W. Schneider, Universität Regensburg, Germany

Spis treści

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.