The Typology of Asian Englishes
1st Edition
Published on 5. October 2011
VII, 120 pages
978-90-272-8453-2 (ISBN)
Description
When considering the structure of New Englishes which have evolved in - multilingual, mostly post-colonial - contexts of Asia (thus, Asian Englishes), the significant factors to be considered are: 1) the variety/ies of the English lexifier that entered the local context; 2) the nature of transmission of English to the local population; and 3) the local, i.e. substrate, languages of the community in which the New English emerges. This third factor is the focus of the five papers in this volume: they investigate the structure of Asian varieties of English by exploring the relationship between the typological profile of substrate languages in the specific linguistic ecology and the grammatical features of the emerging contact variety of English.The contributions to this volume were originally published in English World-Wide 30:2 (2009).
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Content
- The Typology of Asian Englishes
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC data
- Table of contents
- Acknowledgements
- The typology of Asian Englishes
- 1. Why typology? Why Asian Englishes?
- 2. Thrusts and themes of the collection
- 3. To conclude, but only for now
- References
- The Asian typology of English
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Evolution and ecology
- 2.1 Selection and replication
- 2.2 Multilingual ecologies and transmission
- 2.3 The abnormality of monolingual ecologies for our theories of evolution
- 3. Singlish typology
- 3.1 Three features of Singlish grammar
- 3.2 Evolution and ecology as explanatory parameters
- 4. Final remarks
- References
- Aspects of the morphosyntactic typology of Hong Kong English
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The sociolinguistic contexts of HKE
- 3. Finiteness as a typological category, in English, and in Chinese
- 3.1 Finiteness in standard varieties of English
- 3.2 Tense and finiteness in Chinese
- 4. Analysing the HKE data
- 4.1 Tense
- 4.2 Finiteness
- 5. Conclusion: Language contact, typology, and the ecology of the language-contact environment in Hong Kong
- References
- Typological diversity in New Englishes
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Universals in New Englishes
- 3. Data
- 3.1 Indian English
- 3.2 Singapore English
- 3.3 Substrate grammars for Indian English and Singapore English
- 4. Past tense omission (K&S #40)
- 5. Over-extension of the progressive (K&S #21)
- 5.1 Use of progressive -ing in Indian English
- 5.2 Use of progressive -ing in Singapore English
- 5.3 Discussion
- 6. Copula absence (K&S #57)
- 7. Conclusions
- References
- Thai English
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Background
- 2.1 English in Thailand
- 2.2 Rhythm
- 2.3 Vowels
- 3. Methodology
- 3.1 Rhythm
- 3.2 Vowels
- 4. Results
- 4.1 Rhythm
- 4.2 Vowels
- 5. Conclusion
- References
- Revisiting English prosody
- 1. Why revisit English prosody?
- 2. Like Chinese me55?
- 2.1 Discourse particles
- 2.2 Word level
- 2.3 Phrase / Utterance
- 3. But is it tone?
- 4. Asian Englishes on the agenda
- 4.1 English intonation models and tone language classification
- 4.2 The typology of Asian Englishes
- 5. Closing remarks
- References
- Index
