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  • A Usage-Based Approach to Substratum Transfer: The Case of Four Unproductive Features in Singapore English

  • Zhiming Bao
  • Journal:
    Language / Volume 86 / Issue 4 / December 2010
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    19 February 2026, pp. 792-820

  • This article discusses four grammatical constructions that have been appropriated from Chinese into Singapore English and spelled out with English morphosyntactic materials. These constructions have developed unique structural properties and usage patterns that differ in interesting ways from those of their respective Chinese sources and English exponents. While the structural properties of these constructions are shaped by the grammars of Chinese and English, the two languages with a constant presence in Singapore, the usage patterns are largely determined by the grammatical requirements associated with the English exponents. I argue that frequency of use in the contact language plays a crucial role in substratum-derived linguistic change, and propose a usage-based exemplar model of substratum transfer and stabilization that gives an adequate and cogent explanation of the facts discussed here.

  • ‘We do not Want to Masquerade as Linguists’: A Short History of SIL and the Academy

  • William L. Svelmoe
  • Journal:
    Language / Volume 85 / Issue 3 / September 2009
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    19 February 2026, pp. 629-635

  • SIL International trains between two hundred and three hundred linguists every year. Many of these missionary linguists will use their training not only to win converts to Protestant Christianity, but also to add to SIL's massive linguistic bibliography. While tension between the evangelical and scientific goals of the organization have manifested from time to time internally, as some members insist that linguistic expertise and publication come before evangelism while others resist, it is for outsiders that SIL's dual identity has tended to cause the most difficulties (Svelmoe 2008). Ironically, as this paper demonstrates, linguists in the United States, Mexico, and Latin America have themselves to blame and credit, almost as much as SIL itself, for the eventual shape of the organization.

  • LAN volume 80 issue 1 Cover and Front matter

  • Journal:
    Language / Volume 80 / Issue 1 / March 2004
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    19 February 2026, pp. f1-f3
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