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This study investigates the extended grammatical uses of the speech act verbs Open image in new window shuō ‘say’ and Open image in new window jiǎng ‘say’ in Singapore Mandarin Chinese (SMC). With data from a contemporary spoken corpus, the study finds that while both Open image in new window and Open image in new window are major speech act verbs in SMC, Open image in new window has been more grammatically expanded than Open image in new window not only in SMC, but also in its counterparts, namely other Mandarin varieties and Chinese dialects. The extension has been motivated by both language-external and language-internal factors. The findings of this study will contribute not only to the typology of speech act verbs and their grammaticalization in general, but also to the study of language variations and changes.

Grammaticalization of Shuo and Jiang in Singapore Mandarin Chinese: A Spoken-Corpus-Based Study