{"product_id":"passive-structures-in-singapore-english-von-dominik-lorenz","title":"Passive Structures in Singapore English","description":"\u003cp\u003eSeminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject American Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2, University of Freiburg, course: Proseminar I, language: English, abstract: Ho and Platt (1993:1) argue that Singaporean English is a particularly interesting\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eindigenized, or nativized, speech variety because it is so widely used and fills so many\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efunctions. I can confirm Ho and Platt¿s statement, since I was in Singapore in 2004. It was not\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edifficult to notice Singapore English as a speech variety. This sparked my interest in\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eparticipating in the proseminar ¿English in Singapore¿ and consequently in researching into a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecertain grammatical phenomenon in Singapore English, namely the passive voice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this term paper, a short analysis of the two passive structures specific to Colloquial\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSingapore English (the so-called kena passive and the give passive) will be presented. Further\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eon, we the get passive will be examined. We will show that give- and kena-constructions are\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ederived from the languages of Chinese and Malay, respectively. The bigger part of this paper\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewill be to examine the overall frequencies thereof. Which of the two passive constructions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewill be closer in structure to the standard form? A personal analysis will help us to answer this\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003equestion, always with the hidden desire to finally come up with a reasonable conclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etowards the end of the paper. We will probably have a winner of the competing substrate form\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand we will hopefully find out which passive construction is the most productive one in\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSingapore English.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoreover, we want to compare the frequency of the kena-passive with the getpassive¿s\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efrequency in a corpus-based analysis. Admittedly, the corpus-based study will be\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003erelatively restrictive and not quite large in size. In addition, the give-passive will be ignored\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edue to its rarity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFurther on, we want to compare passive voice in Singapore with the passive in\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStandard English. To manage this, after having presented the development of Singapore, its\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emultilingualism and English as its most common language, we will define some basic terms,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewhich will be used in this term paper. After that, we will explain the corpus and the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emethodology used. In the end, we will sum up the findings and we will discuss my own study.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerhaps, there are possibilities how to do it better next time or there are other things that could\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebe done.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783640862955\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9783640862955","offer_id":39608614256733,"sku":"9783640862955","price":15.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/7c785e11-8331-4447-a329-cef4bef08209.jpg?v=1777781812","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/en\/products\/passive-structures-in-singapore-english-von-dominik-lorenz","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}