Converging Grammars : : Constructions in Singapore English / / Debra Ziegeler.

This volume provides a much-needed, critical overview of the field of constructions and construction grammar in the context of Singapore English, and poses the question of identifying a construction in contact when the lexicon is derived from one language and the syntax from another. Case studies ar...

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2015]
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Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Language Contact and Bilingualism [LCB] , 11
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Table of contents --   |t Preface and acknowledgements --   |t Abbreviations --   |t List of figures --   |t List of tables --   |t Chapter 1. Introduction --   |t Chapter 2. Singapore English --   |t Chapter 3. Construction grammars and the paradox of ‘mixed’ construction types --   |t Chapter 4. Transitivity and causativity --   |t Chapter 5. Experiential aspect --   |t Chapter 6. The past tense construction --   |t Chapter 7. Bare noun constructions --   |t Chapter 8. The Merger Construction: a model of construction convergence --   |t Chapter 9. Concluding remarks --   |t References --   |t Index 
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653 |a Convergence. 
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