싱가포르 영어의 wh-의문문 재고찰 = Wh-questions in Singapore English Revisited

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

There are two types of English spoken in Singapore: standard English (SE) and Singapore Colloquial English, which is better known as Singapore English (SgE) or Singlish. What is interesting about SgE is that the majority of SgE speakers are speaking more than two languages on a regular basis. SgE is thus characterized as a mixture of languages from the residents’ origins. This paper examines the possible locations of wh-words in wh-questions in SgE, and points out that the properties of SgE wh-questions cannot be accounted for simply by relying on those of SE and Mandarin Chinese (MS). Particularly for the referential instrumental how and non-referential manner how which do not occur in the pre-verbal position, not expected from SE and MC, this paper suggests that their properties of location could be influenced by the questions in Hindi, which is a rising language in the Indian community of Singapore.

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