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Title Negation and contact : with special focus on Singapore English / edited by Debra Ziegeler, Zhiming Bao.

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource.
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Series Studies in language companion series (SLCS), 0165-7763 ; volume 183
Studies in language companion series ; volume 183.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Preface and acknowledgements -- Introduction / Debra Ziegeler and Zhiming Bao -- Towards a diachronic reconstruction of Colloquial Singapore English / Peter Siemund and Lijun Li -- Neg-raising and long-distance licensing of negative polarity items / Jack Hoeksema -- A positive polarity focus particle under negation : not also and the impact of pragmatic activation / Pierre Larrivée -- What is strict negative concord? Lessons from French based Creoles / Viviane Deprez -- Englishes, English Creoles and their negative indefinites / Johan van der Auwera -- Negative raising in Singapore English / Zhiming Bao and Luwen Cao -- Quantification under negative scope in Singapore English / Debra Ziegeler -- Subject index.
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Subject English language -- Singapore -- Grammar.
English language.
Singapore.
Grammar, Comparative and general.
English language -- Dialects -- Singapore -- Grammar.
English language -- Dialects.
English language -- Spoken English -- Singapore.
English language -- Spoken English.
English language -- Negatives.
English language -- Negatives.
Languages in contact -- Singapore.
Languages in contact.
Language and culture -- Singapore.
Language and culture.
Singapore -- Languages.
Language and languages.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Ziegeler, Debra, editor.
Zhiming, Bao, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Negation and contact. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2017] 9789027259486 (DLC) 2016057186
ISBN 9789027265944 (pdf)
9027265941 (pdf)
9789027259486 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
9027259488