@inbook{b489918235f74ce1a654c38b8365027b,
title = "Malaysian English: Evidence of contact with classifier languages",
abstract = "The emergence of a distinctive variety of English in Malaysia, widely known as ME, has been the subject of many studies. From the lexicon to the phonological system to the syntax, this variety has undergone the progressive nativisation commonly observed in varieties of English that were transplanted through colonisation into multilingual and multiculturalsettings and that have gone on to play Significant roles and functions within the independent states (e.g.Lowenberg, 1984; Schneider, 200$ and Baskaran, 2005).The prolonged and intense contact between English and the other languages spoken in Malaysia, such as Malay, Chinese and Tamil, has produced systematic linguistic variation and change resulting in a local variety of English that is divergent from Standard English yet recognisable and relevant, especially to its speakers and others in the region.",
keywords = "language contact, Malaysian English, syntax, nominal countability, navitisation, multilingualism",
author = "Siew TAN",
year = "2016",
doi = "10.1163/9789004314306_003",
language = "English",
isbn = "9789004314290",
series = "Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture",
publisher = "Brill",
pages = "25--44",
editor = "Toshiko Yamaguchi and David Deterding",
booktitle = "English in Malaysia",
address = "Netherlands",
edition = "1",
}