linguistic features of standard Sin

linguistic features of standard Singapore and Malaysian English

Most of the lexical items that have been documented in previous scholarship tend to be about the colloquial variety of Singapore English However, there are also studies that have focused on features of lexical items that appear in both standard and colloquial Singapore English and some of these studies also provide a comparison with MaLE or focus solely on male several categories can be used to describe the lexical innovations that occur in both SgE and MaLE and a few key ones will be highlighted here. Note that in many of the examples given below, when they do appear in standard SgE and MaLE, even in the local newspapers or in speeches, these lexical innovations are used when no standard English equivalents can fully express the intended meaning