The sia particle in colloquial Singapore English.

• Main Author: Khoo, Velda Yuan Ling.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics::Colloquial language
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/48034
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The study of utterance particles in Singapore Colloquial English (SCE), or more commonly known as Singlish, is traditionally known as one fraught with difficulties, mainly due to the problems of pinning down exact grammatical functions and interactional motivations for this unique word class. This p...