Singapore English : a grammatical description

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

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...

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Other Authors: Lim, Lisa
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2004.
Series:Varieties of English around the world. General series ; v. G33.
Subjects:
English language > Singapore > Grammar.
English language > Variation > Singapore.
English language > Dialects > Singapore.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > General.
English language > Dialects
English language > Grammar
English language > Variation
Language and languages
Engels.
Grammatica's (vorm)
Languages.
Singapore > Languages.
Singapore
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Table of Contents:
  • Singapore English: A grammatical description; Editorial page; Title page; LCC page; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Tables & Figures; 1. English in Singapore and Singapore English; 2. Sounding Singaporean; 3. Nouns and noun phrases; 4. The verbal cluster; 5. Reduplication and discourse particles; 6. The evolution of Singapore English; References; Corpus; Name index; Subject index; The series Varieties of English Around the World.

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