The aspectual system in Singapore Hokkien
This study is an in-depth analysis of the aspectual system of Singapore Hokkien, a language variety that is becoming increasingly endangered. With the aid of four native speakers, natural Singapore Hokkien speech was recorded, transcribed and analysed. The following types of grammatical marking of v...
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| author | Tan, Cheryl Xue Er |
| author2 | Professor Randy John La Polla |
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| description | This study is an in-depth analysis of the aspectual system of Singapore Hokkien, a language variety that is becoming increasingly endangered. With the aid of four native speakers, natural Singapore Hokkien speech was recorded, transcribed and analysed. The following types of grammatical marking of viewpoint aspect are discussed in this paper: Perfective, Completive, Perfect, Experiential, (Past) Habitual, Prospective, Iterative, Delimitative and Tentative. Previous literature on Singapore Hokkien and other varieties of Hokkien were also compared and contrasted against the data that have been collected for the purpose of this study. It is shown that there might be phonological and syntactical differences between Singapore Hokkien and Taiwanese. A heavy emphasis was placed on the analysis of the pat33 and ke51 particles, which were initially hypothesized to be experiential particles. However, Chappell (2001) claimed that these particles should be considered as evidential particles instead. This paper attempts to address these conflicting analyses. Verbal reduplication in Singapore Hokkien is also discussed at length, as it was observed to be a pervasive structure in Singapore Hokkien speech. It was discovered that the type of aspectual sense derived from these reduplicated structures is influenced by how extended the action associated with the verb is in time. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1000552020-09-27T20:11:11Z The aspectual system in Singapore Hokkien Tan, Cheryl Xue Er Professor Randy John La Polla School of Humanities and Social Sciences DRNTU::Humanities::Language::Linguistics This study is an in-depth analysis of the aspectual system of Singapore Hokkien, a language variety that is becoming increasingly endangered. With the aid of four native speakers, natural Singapore Hokkien speech was recorded, transcribed and analysed. The following types of grammatical marking of viewpoint aspect are discussed in this paper: Perfective, Completive, Perfect, Experiential, (Past) Habitual, Prospective, Iterative, Delimitative and Tentative. Previous literature on Singapore Hokkien and other varieties of Hokkien were also compared and contrasted against the data that have been collected for the purpose of this study. It is shown that there might be phonological and syntactical differences between Singapore Hokkien and Taiwanese. A heavy emphasis was placed on the analysis of the pat33 and ke51 particles, which were initially hypothesized to be experiential particles. However, Chappell (2001) claimed that these particles should be considered as evidential particles instead. This paper attempts to address these conflicting analyses. Verbal reduplication in Singapore Hokkien is also discussed at length, as it was observed to be a pervasive structure in Singapore Hokkien speech. It was discovered that the type of aspectual sense derived from these reduplicated structures is influenced by how extended the action associated with the verb is in time. Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics and Multilingual Studies 2014-06-03T05:40:39Z 2019-12-06T20:15:51Z 2014-06-03T05:40:39Z 2019-12-06T20:15:51Z 2014 2014 Final Year Project (FYP) https://hdl.handle.net/10356/100055 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/19533 en NTU 44 p. application/pdf |
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| title_full | The aspectual system in Singapore Hokkien |
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| title_full_unstemmed | The aspectual system in Singapore Hokkien |
| title_short | The aspectual system in Singapore Hokkien |
| title_sort | aspectual system in singapore hokkien |
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