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
Summary
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 hist
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-164) and indexes
