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Relative clauses in Hong Kong English
Author(s) -
Gisborne Nikolas
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
world englishes
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.6
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1467-971X
pISSN - 0883-2919
DOI - 10.1111/1467-971x.00184
Subject(s) - relative clause , linguistics , variety (cybernetics) , varieties of english , feature (linguistics) , dependent clause , affect (linguistics) , history , computer science , artificial intelligence , philosophy , sentence
This paper discusses relative clauses in Hong Kong English, and considers a number of questions about the morphosyntactic feature system of Hong Kong English, comparing relevant attestations from local data to those found in other varieties of English. It looks at the ways in which relative constructions in Cantonese may affect how relative clauses in Hong Kong English are formed, and also examines the degree to which the relative clause system of Hong Kong English is independent of the relative clause system of both Cantonese and standard native‐speaker varieties of English, and therefore could be said to provide evidence of whether Hong Kong English is an independent variety of English or not.