Singapore English
Subtitle: a grammatical description
By: edited by Lisa Lim.
Contributors: Lim, Lisa.
Series: Varieties of English around the world.; v. G33
Publisher: John Benjamins
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 172
Subjects: English language -- Singapore -- Grammar.; English language -- Variation -- Singapore.; English language -- Dialects -- Singapore.; Singapore -- Languages.
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [151]-164) and indexes.