Singapore English: Mô Tả Ngữ Pháp

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University of Amsterdam

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2004

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1. CHAPTER 1: English in Singapore and Singapore English

1.1. English arrives in Singapore

1.2. English in education

1.3. And English in the home and streets

1.4. The Grammar of Spoken Singapore English Corpus (GSSEC)

1.4.1. Collecting the data

1.4.2. Who are the Singapore English speakers?

1.4.3. The resulting corpus

1.5. Outline of volume

1.6. Concluding remarks

2. CHAPTER 2: Sounding Singaporean

2.1. Monophthong realisation and distribution

2.2. Diphthongs, and triphthongs?

2.3. Vowel substrate influence?

2.4. Voiced obstruents

2.5. Liquids and glides

2.6. r, taps and flaps

2.7. Syllable structure processes

2.8. Final consonant deletion or replacement

2.9. Consonant cluster reduction

2.10. Consonantal substrate influences?

2.11. Intonation forms and functions

2.12. Characteristic CSE forms

2.13. Sustained level steps

2.14. Phrase-final lengthening

2.15. Pitch patterns and particles from the substrates?

2.16. Focus and prominence

2.17. Conclusions

3. CHAPTER 3: Nouns and noun phrases

3.1. Indefinite articles

3.2. Definite articles

3.3. Premodifiers as heads

3.4. Number and agreement

3.5. Different ‘ones’

3.6. Reifier one?

3.7. More on ‘singulative’

3.8. Heavy NP shift

3.9. Conclusions

4. CHAPTER 4: The verbal cluster

4.1. Optionality of verbal inflections

4.2. Verb forms and their uses

4.3. The copula be and other predicate phrases

4.4. Be as an auxiliary

4.4.1. The progressive auxiliary be

4.4.2. The passive auxiliary be

4.4.3. Be as part of be supposed to

4.5. Factors determining the (co-)occurrence of auxiliaries

4.6. Subject NPs, negation, and the auxiliary

4.7. Wh-interrogatives and subject-auxiliary inversion

4.8. Verb reduplication and aspectual classes of events

4.9. Tests for aspectual classes in CSE

4.10. Constraints on verb reduplication

4.11. Four types of passive constructions

4.12. The kena passive

4.13. Conclusion

5. CHAPTER 5: Reduplication and discourse particles

5.1. Other cases of substratal influence

5.2. Substratal influence in the case of CSE reduplication

5.3. The possibility of substratal influence

5.4. A brief summary of the particles

5.5. Conclusion

6. CHAPTER 6: The evolution of Singapore English: Finding the matrix

6.1. The lexifier

6.2. Substrates and adstrates

6.3. Sources of hybridity in SE

6.4. Origins of English in Singapore

6.5. Conclusions

6.6. Final remarks

Acknowledgements

Tables & Figures

References

Name index

Subject index

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