30.3065, Books: The Making of Vernacular Singapore English: Bao

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Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2019 15:42:22
From: Louise Bowes [lbowes at cambridge.org]
Subject: The Making of Vernacular Singapore English: Bao

 


Title: The Making of Vernacular Singapore English 
Subtitle: System, Transfer, and Filter 
Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/asian-language-and-linguistics/making-vernacular-singapore-english-system-transfer-and-filter?format=PB 


Author: Zhiming Bao

Paperback: ISBN:  9781108731669 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 31.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108731669 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 23.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108731669 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 28.00


Abstract:

Editor's Note: This is a new edition of a previously announced book.

Singapore English is a focal point across the many subfields of linguistics,
as its semantic, syntactic and phonetic/phonological qualities tell us a great
deal about what happens when very different types of language come together.
Sociolinguists are also interested in the relative status of Singapore English
compared to other languages in the country. This book charts the history of
Singapore English and explores the linguistic, historical and social factors
that have influenced the variety as it is spoken today. It identifies novel
grammatical features of the language, discusses their structure and function,
and traces their origins to the local languages of Singapore. It places
grammatical system and usage at the core of the analysis, and shows that
introspective and corpus data are complementary. This study will be of
interest to scholars and advanced students working on language contact, world
varieties of English, historical linguistics and sociolinguistics.
   

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.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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