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Converging Grammars: Constructions Singapore English
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Converging Grammars: Constructions Singapore English
Current price: $114.99
Barnes and Noble
Converging Grammars: Constructions Singapore English
Current price: $114.99
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This volume provides a much-needed, critical overview of the field of constructions and construction grammar in the context of Singapore English, and poses the question of identifying a construction in contact when the lexicon is derived from one language and the syntax from another. Case studies are illustrated in which the possibility of a 'merger'-construction is offered to resolve such problems. The book is intended for students of construction theories, variation studies, or any researcher of contact grammars