Zhiming Bao

List of John Benjamins publications for which Zhiming Bao plays a role.

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Language Contact with Chinese

Edited by Zhiming Bao

Special issue of Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 38:1 (2023) vi, 206 pp.
Subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

Negation and Contact: With special focus on Singapore English

Edited by Debra Ziegeler and Zhiming Bao

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 183] 2017. vii, 208 pp.
Subjects English linguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Bao, Zhiming, Ruiqing Shen and Kunmei Han 2023 Languages and language contact in ChinaLanguage Contact with Chinese, Bao, Zhiming (ed.), pp. 1–13 | Introduction
China is ethnically and linguistically diverse. There are 56 officially recognized ethnic groups in the country, including the majority Han, with a 1.2 billion-strong population and Tatar, the smallest minority group with only 3,556 people residing in Xinjiang, according to the 2010 Population… read more
Cao, Luwen and Zhiming Bao 2018 Negation in Singapore EnglishNegation and Negative Concord: The view from Creoles, Déprez, Viviane and Fabiola Henri (eds.), pp. 153–170 | Chapter
Singapore English is a new variety of English that has developed unique grammatical characteristics due to contact with the heritage languages of Singapore, especially Chinese. In this paper, we document the morphosyntax of negation in Singapore English, using data culled from available databases,… read more
Bao, Zhiming and Luwen Cao 2017 Negative raising in Singapore EnglishNegation and Contact: With special focus on Singapore English, Ziegeler, Debra and Zhiming Bao (eds.), pp. 151–170 | Article
Negative raising is common in English and Singapore English, and a casual visitor to Singapore can easily observe instances of this phenomenon. It is not attested in Chinese, the main heritage language of Singapore. We know that Singapore English has incorporated grammatical constructions from… read more
Ziegeler, Debra and Zhiming Bao 2017 IntroductionNegation and Contact: With special focus on Singapore English, Ziegeler, Debra and Zhiming Bao (eds.), pp. 1–10 | Article
Bao, Zhiming and Khin Khin Aye 2012 Bazaar Malay topicsPidgins and Creoles in Asia, Ansaldo, Umberto (ed.), pp. 151–167 | Article
Bazaar Malay is a Malay-lexified pidgin with a Chinese substratum spoken in the marketplace of Singapore (and elsewhere in Southeast Asia). Although it is no longer a lingua franca in Singapore today, it is nevertheless still spoken by older Singaporeans. Like Chinese and Malay, Bazaar Malay is a… read more
Bao, Zhiming 2011 One in Singapore EnglishLanguage Change in Contact Languages: Grammatical and prosodic considerations, Clements, J. Clancy and Shelome Gooden (eds.), pp. 79–106 | Article
This paper investigates the grammar and usage of one in Singapore English, which exhibits the influence of both Chinese and English, the two dominant languages in the multilingual ecology of Singapore English, as well as the influence of relevant linguistic universals. The grammar of one is… read more
Bao, Zhiming 2011 Convergence-to-substratum and the passives in Singapore EnglishCreoles, their Substrates, and Language Typology, Lefebvre, Claire (ed.), pp. 253–270 | Article
Singapore English is a non-native variety of English that has emerged from intense contact with the local languages, mainly Chinese and Malay. It has two passive forms appropriated from the local languages, in addition to the English passives (be V-en and get V-en). In this paper, I study the usage… read more
Bao, Zhiming and Khin Khin Aye 2010 Bazaar Malay topicsPidgins and Creoles in Asian Contexts, Ansaldo, Umberto (ed.), pp. 155–171 | Article
Bazaar Malay is a Malay-lexified pidgin with a Chinese substratum spoken in the marketplace of Singapore (and elsewhere in Southeast Asia). Although it is no longer a lingua franca in Singapore today, it is nevertheless still spoken by older Singaporeans. Like Chinese and Malay, Bazaar Malay is a… read more
Bao, Zhiming 2009  One in Singapore EnglishLanguage Change in Contact Languages: Grammatical and prosodic considerations, Clements, J. Clancy and Shelome Gooden (eds.), pp. 338–365 | Article
This paper investigates the grammar and usage of one in Singapore English, which exhibits the influence of both Chinese and English, the two dominant languages in the multilingual ecology of Singapore English, as well as the influence of relevant linguistic universals. The grammar of one is… read more
Colloquial Singapore English has a novel conditional construction in which the conditional clause is not marked morphosyntactically, and must precede the consequent clause. We show that Singapore English, like Chinese, the main substrate language, is topic prominent, and the novel conditional… read more
The system of empty categories in Singapore English, a contact language with an endogenous ecology, arises through the interaction of three parameters: [topic-prominence], [pro-drop], and [wh-movement]. These parameters are reset under the pressure of the languages in the contact ecology, mainly… read more
Alsagoff, Lubna, Zhiming Bao and Lionel Wee 1998 Why You Talk Like That? The Pragmatics of a Why Construction in Singapore EnglishEnglish World-Wide 19:2, pp. 247–260 | Article
In this paper, we examine one wh-construction in Singapore English, which signals a demand for justification, and show that there is a systematic correlation between its structural and pragmatic properties. We suggest that this wh-construction is based on the imperative, and inherits the… read more