A Grammar of Modern Baba Malay / / Nala H. Lee.

This book documents modern Baba Malay, a critically endangered Austronesian-based contact language with a Sinitic substrate. Formed via intermarriage between Hokkien-speaking male traders and indigenous women in the Malay Peninsula, the language has less than 1,000 speakers in Singapore and less tha...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2022 Part 1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Mouton Grammar Library [MGL] , 90
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Physical Description:1 online resource (X, 389 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Baba Malay and its speakers
  • 3 Phonetics and phonology
  • 4 Parts of speech
  • 5 Syntax
  • 6 Differences between Baba Malay Spoken in Singapore and Malacca
  • 7 Appendices
  • List of Tables
  • List of Figures
  • References
  • Index