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World English – Singlish

World English – Singlish. 100501063 林宜靜. Outline. What is Singlish? Sentence structure - Topic-prominence Morphology - Code switching - Chinese particles in Singlish Grammar - Copula-deletion - Agreement. What is Singlish?.

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World English – Singlish

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  1. World English – Singlish 100501063 林宜靜

  2. Outline • What is Singlish? • Sentence structure-Topic-prominence • Morphology-Code switching- Chinese particles in Singlish • Grammar-Copula-deletion-Agreement

  3. What is Singlish? • Singlish is an English-based creole language spoken in Singapore. • A mixture of English, Malay, Hokkien, Teochew, Cantonese, Tamil and other languages.

  4. English -> Indo-European language Malay -> Austronesian languageTamil -> Dravidian languageHokkien, Teochew, Cantonese -> Sino-Tibetan language (Chinese)

  5. Sentence Structure • Topic-prominence / Subject-prominence • Topic-prominence [ex: Mandarin]這個人　　　 　　個子　　　　　　很高。 this person (topic) height(subject) tall. • Subject-prominence [ex: English] Amy (subject) is tall.

  6. Singlish brings the feature of topic-prominence into the subject-prominence language, English. • Example: This country weather very hot one. (topic) (subject) “The weather in this country is very hot.”

  7. Morphology – Code switching • Code switching is very common in Singlish. Words from different language is often mixed in a sentence. • Example: This soup so kiam. (“salty” in Hokkien) You want drink kopi? (“coffee” in Malay) No! You Goondu! (“idiot” from Tamil)

  8. Morphology – Chinese particles • For example, “lah”, “lor”, “mah”, “meh”, e.t.c. • Example:They never study meh(咩)?“Did they ever study?” I dun have lah(啦)!“I really don’t have the thing you want!”

  9. Grammar – Copula-deletion • “The copula verb BE may be omitted in several cases.” (Leimgruber 2011) • Example: My brother Ø not very handsome lah. “My brother is not very handsome.”

  10. Grammar - Agreement • Tense agreement is highly variable and not compulsory. (Leimgruber2011) • Past tense markings and third-person singular -s are not required. • Marking of past tense occurs most often in irregular verbs. (Platt, John and Weber, Heidi 1980)

  11. Example: He talk so long, never stop. (talked; stopped) I went to Orchard Road last night. It look very cheap. (looks) If he have a pencil or something. (has)

  12. Work Cited • Platt, John and Weber, Heidi (1980) English in Singapore and Malaysia: Status, Features, Functions, Singapore: Oxford University Press, p. 88. • Leimgruber, Jakob R. E. . "Singapore English." Language and Linguistics Compass 1 May 2011: 47-62. Print. • SINGLISH - A Language Guide for Foreigners | Aussie Pete (SINGLISH - A Language Guide for Foreigners | Aussie Pete) http://www.aussiepete.com/2008/05/singlish- language-guide-for-foreigners.html

  13. The End !

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