Ana Sofia Carvalho,1 Paulo Santos1,2 1Department of Medicine of Community, Information and Health Decision Sciences (MEDCIDS), Faculty of Medicine of University of Porto, Porto, Portugal; 2Centre for Health Technology and Services Research (CINTESIS), University of Porto, Porto, PortugalCorrespondence: Ana Sofia CarvalhoFaculty of Medicine of Unive
Malay lexical borrowings in Singapore colloquial English
Singapore English evolved as a contact variety with English as its superstrate and the local languages, namely Chinese, Malay and Tamil as its substrate languages.It is expected, therefore, that Singapore English would contain features borrowed from these substrate languages.In this paper, we investigate the processes and types of lexical borrowing
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