Relative clauses in Hong Kong English

Gisborne, Nikolas

doi:10.1111/1467-971x.00184

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“…To get to finiteness, we can start by looking at the kinds of levelling of morphosyntactic distinctions that are common in HKE. Take the example in (6), from Gisborne (2000). These examples do not reveal the form of the verb that its syntactic distribution would normally require.…”

Section: Analysing the Hke Datamentioning

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“…The irregular and syllabic-past verb examples in Gisborne (2000) which are relevant to the question of tense in HKE are presented in (8)-(10).…”

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“…There is some work on the structure of the variety. Gisborne (2000), which looks at relative clauses, is one case study, and Hung (2000) explores the phonology of HKE as a system in toto. But there is very little work on the morphosyntax of the variety, and there are not really any useful paradigms for exploring its morphosyntax.…”

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Aspects of the morphosyntactic typology of Hong Kong English

Gisborne

2009

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English and Cantonese are the main two languages in contact in Hong Kong, together with some other minority Sinitic languages and a variety of Austronesian languages spoken by domestic helpers. Cantonese and English are typologically dissimilar in terms of word order, tense, mood and aspect marking, noun phrase structure, relative clause formation, the formation of interrogatives, and argument structure. Yet there is no work which systematically explores how these morphosyntactic typological differences are revealed in Hong Kong English (HKE). This paper explores how a typological perspective facilitates an analysis of the expression of finiteness in HKE, a significant feature because it subsumes a number of other typological facts. The analysis claims that HKE is a new English variety where the typology of the substrate is more directly responsible for the morphosyntactic features under analysis than the typology of the lexifier.

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“…The irregular and syllabic-past verb examples in Gisborne (2000) which are relevant to the question of tense in HKE are presented in (8)-(10).…”

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2009

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“…However, in a recent issue of World Englishes (19:3) as well as in the volume Hong Kong English: Autonomy and creativity (Bolton, ed., 2002b) it has been argued that Hong Kong English does exist (cf. Chan;Hung;Gisborne;Benson;and Bolton & Lim: all 2000). In addition, in McArthur's Oxford Guide to World English (2002), certain features of 'Hong Kong English' are explicated in detail, making interesting reading.…”

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Hong Kong English: A stillborn variety?

Pang¹

2003

English Today

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For a distinctive variety of English to subsist and be acknowledged in Hong Kong, localization is not enough. Indigenization through general acceptance is also necessary, but will not easily be forthcoming, regardless of the claims and assertions of linguists in Hong Kong or elsewhere regarding the existence of a distinctive ‘Hong Kong English’. In addition, Hong Kong teachers of English will not accept or adopt distinctive local usages in their classrooms, regardless of the everyday use of such usages. The sociolinguistic situation is increasingly triglossic, in terms of the three languages Cantonese, Putonghua, and English, each of which has distinct functions in terms of Hong Kong, mainland China, and the world at large. A dominant ideology of linguistic purism impels people to seek outside standards with regard to both English and Putonghua, and to deny that there is a viable local variety of English, despite the length of time that the language has been used in Hong Kong.

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“…Thus, while earlier studies identified characteristic features of the New Englishes, with a primary purpose of determining how they were different from the traditional native varieties, later studies have gone much beyond, seeking, instead, to determine how the New Englishes work as systems unto themselves. Examples of earlier studies on New Englishes include for example , Bauer, (1989) on New Zealand English ;Baumgardner, (1996), on Pakistani English; Gisborne, (2000), on Hong Kong English; and Bansal, (1976), Bakshi, (1991), and Hosali, (1991), on Indian English, to mention just a few. Later, larger-scale studies various international Englishes include Balasubramanian, (2009);Sedlatschek, (2009);Schilk, (2009);and Kirkpatrick, (2010).…”

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New Englishes Norms: A Reality or an Intellectual Ideal?

Balasubramanian¹,

AbuRadwan²

2018

J. arts soc. sci.

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Abstract:It is now widely accepted that English does not belong to the traditional native speaker countries such as the UK or the USA, and that English across the world has diversified and established roots in different parts of the world. Given this, studies have emerged, that focus on New Englishes being systems unto themselves, and not merely erroneous versions of more traditional "native" Englishes (Rajagopalan, 2012). Scholars today are calling for descriptions of New Englishes to form the bases of New English handbooks, which, they claim, could serve as pedagogical models. Linguists like Lange (2011) and Kachru (1994) and literary figures such as Salman Rushdie alike have called for the recognition of New Englishes to be accepted and used in order to better reflect the global nature of the language The aim of this study is to determine whether new international varieties of English are acceptable among language teachers. Specifically, the paper investigates how acceptable certain well-documented New Englishes structures are among English language professionals working at the tertiary level in the Arab world and North America. The results show that while participants are, in general, more tolerant of New English structures in students' spoken forms than in both students and their own written forms, they stated that they would not use any of the structures in their own writing. Results also show that the respondents' native language, specialization and educational qualifications are factors that impact their acceptance of these forms.

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Relative clauses in Hong Kong English

Cited by 45 publications

References 12 publications

Aspects of the morphosyntactic typology of Hong Kong English

Aspects of the morphosyntactic typology of Hong Kong English

Hong Kong English: A stillborn variety?

New Englishes Norms: A Reality or an Intellectual Ideal?

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