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

• Pubblicazione: Philadelphia, : John Benjamins, 2004
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (188 p.)
• Disciplina: 427/.95957
• Soggetto topico: English language - Singapore - Grammar; English language - Variation - Singapore; English language - Dialects - Singapore
• Soggetto geografico: Singapore Languages
• Altri autori: LimLisa
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Singapore English: A grammatical description -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC page -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Tables & -- Figures -- 1. English in Singapore and Singapore English -- Notes -- 2. Sounding Singaporean -- Notes -- 3. Nouns and noun phrases -- Notes -- 4. The verbal cluster -- Notes -- Appendix -- 5. Reduplication and discourse particles -- Notes -- 6. The evolution of Singapore English -- Notes -- References -- Corpus -- Name index -- Subject index -- The series Varieties of English Around the World.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Singapore English
• ISBN: 1-282-15998-4; 9786612159985; 90-272-9480-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910825256603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Varieties of English around the world. . -General series ; ; v. 33.