Variability of Be realization in the Singapore an English Speech Continuum

References

1. ALLEYNE, M.C.
   (1980) Comparative Afro-American. Ann Arbor: Karoma.
   [Google Scholar]
2. ANDERSEN, R.W.
   (1979) "Creolization as the Acquisition of a Second Language as a First Language". From the Conferrence on Theoretical Orientations in Creole Studies, March 28-April 1, 1979, St Thomas, Virgin Islands.
3. BAUGH, J.
   (1980) "A reexamination of the Black English copula". In Labov, W. ed 1980:83–107.
4. BICKERTON, D.
   (1973a) "The structure of polylectal grammars". In Shuy, R. ed 1973:17–41.
5. BICKERTON, D.
   (1973b) "The nature of a Creole continuum". Language49.3:640–669.
   [Google Scholar]
6. BICKERTON, D.
   (1975) Dynamics of a Creole System. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
   [Google Scholar]
7. CHAO, Y.R.
   (1968) A Grammar of Spoken Chinese. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
   [Google Scholar]
8. DAY, R.
   (1972) "Patterns of variation in copula and tense in the Hawaiian Post-Creole continuum". Ph.D. dissertation, University of Hawaii.
9. DEFRANCIS, J.
   (1976) Beginning Chinese. 2nd edn. New Haven: Yale University Press.
   [Google Scholar]
10. GUTTMAN, L.
    (1944) "A basis for scaling qualitative data". American Sociological Review9: 139–150.
    [Google Scholar]
11. HILL, K.C.
    ed (1979) The Genesis of Language. The First Michigan Colloquim, 1979. Ann Arbor: Karoma Publishers, Inc.
    [Google Scholar]
12. Ho, MX.
    (1986) "The Verb Phrase in Singapore English". Ph.D. thesis, Monash University, Melbourne.
13. Ho, M.L. and J.T. Platt
    (1993) Dynamics of a Contact Continuum. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
    [Google Scholar]
14. HOLM, J.
    (1975) "Variability of the copula in Black English and its Creole kin". Unpublished MS, subsequently revised and published in Holm (1984).
15. HOLM, J.
    (1984) "Variability of the copula in Black English and its Creole kin". American Speech5.4: 291–309.
    [Google Scholar]
16. HOLM, J.
    (1988) Pidgins and Creoles. Vol. 1. Theory and Structure. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
    [Google Scholar]
17. LABOV, W.
    (1969) "Contraction, deletion and inherent variability in the English copula". Language45:715–762.
    [Google Scholar]
18. LABOV, W.
    (1972) Language in the Inner City. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
    [Google Scholar]
19. LABOV, W.
    (1980) Locating Language in Time and Space. New York: Academic Press.
20. LI, C.N. , and S.A. Thompson
    (1981) Mandarin Chinese: A func-tional reference grammar. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
    [Google Scholar]
21. PLATT, J.T.
    (1976) "Implicational scaling and its pedagogical implications". Working Papers in Language and Linguistics4:47–60.
    [Google Scholar]
22. PLATT, J.T.
    (1979) "Variation and implicational relationships: copula realization in Singapore English". General Linguistics19.1:1–14.
    [Google Scholar]
23. ROMAINE, S.
    (1979) "On the decisiveness of quantitative solutions: Why Labov was wrong about contraction and deletion of the copula". Work in Progress12:10–17. Department of Linguistics, University of Edinburgh.
    [Google Scholar]
24. ROMAINE, S.
    (1988) Pidgin and Creole Languages. New York: Longman.
    [Google Scholar]
25. SCHUMANN, J.H.
    (1979) "The Genesis of a Second Language". In Hill, K. ed 1979:48–61.
26. SHUY, R.
    ed (1973) Sociolinguistics: Current Trends and Prospects. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press.
27. T'UNG, P.C. and D.E. POLLARD
    (1982) Colloquial Chinese. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
    [Google Scholar]
28. WOLFRAM, W.A.
    (1969) A Sociolinguistic Description of Detroit Negro Speech. Washington: Center for Applied Linguistics.
    [Google Scholar]
29. WOLFRAM, W.A.
    (1974) "The Relationship of White Southern Speech of Vernacular Black English". Language50:498–527.
    [Google Scholar]