The Influence of the Lexifier : : Beyond Grammaticalization in Singapore English / / Debra Ziegeler.

The study of language contact in the „new" English varieties is frequently influenced by sociolinguistic approaches and reference to substrate languages but much less often to functionally-based contact linguistic theory. In The Influence of the Lexifier, Ziegeler applies grammaticalization and...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2024 Part 1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2024]
©2024
Year of Publication:2024
Language:English
Series:Language Contact and Bilingualism [LCB] , 29
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XVI, 280 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface and acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • List of figures
  • List of tables
  • List of abbreviations
  • Chapter 1 Introduction
  • Chapter 2 Towards a competition model in Singapore English
  • Chapter 3 Gradual contact-induced grammaticalization: The case of already
  • Chapter 4 Past tense in Singapore Colloquial English: A reappraisal
  • Chapter 5 Recapitulating diachrony? One in Singapore English
  • Chapter 6 Absent friends: Discourse and pragmatic markers
  • Chapter 7 Synthesis: Lexifier convergence
  • Chapter 8 Epilogue
  • References
  • Index