Emergent grammatical structures of Bahasa Pasar: based on hakka – malay and cantonese – Malay glossaries

The Malay language belongs to the Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian language family. It is the mother tongue of the Malay ethnic group and the second language of the Chinese and Tamil ethnic groups in Malaysia (Asmah 1976). Since the mass migration of the Chinese from China to Malaysia in...

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Main Author:	Wang Xiaomei
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Language:	English
Published:	Penerbit UKM 2012
Online Access:	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/5546/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/5546/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/5546/1/Vol_12_3_%28865-884%29.pdf

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spelling	ukm-55462012-10-02T00:35:32Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/5546/ Emergent grammatical structures of Bahasa Pasar: based on hakka – malay and cantonese – Malay glossaries Wang Xiaomei, The Malay language belongs to the Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian language family. It is the mother tongue of the Malay ethnic group and the second language of the Chinese and Tamil ethnic groups in Malaysia (Asmah 1976). Since the mass migration of the Chinese from China to Malaysia in the 19th century, a colloquial form of Malay, Bahasa Pasar, has come into being with the contact of Malay and Chinese language. Various text books on colloquial Malay were published to meet the needs of communication between the local residents and migrants. However, the research on Bahasa Pasar from the perspective of language contact is still not adequate. This paper aims to describe the grammatical features of Bahasa Pasar based on two glossaries published one century ago, Ma La Yu Yue Yin Yi Yi (1890/1912) and Zheng Ke Yin Yi Yi Mu Lai You Hua (1909/1926). Four grammatical structures emergent from the two glossaries will be analyzed, the nominal structure, verb-object structure, yes-no question, and passive structure. The analysis shows that Bahasa Pasar adopts many grammatical features of Chinese dialects. This result indicates that language contact has induced a new variety of Malay, which has syntactic features transferred from Chinese dialects. Penerbit UKM 2012-09 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/5546/1/Vol_12_3_%28865-884%29.pdf Wang Xiaomei, (2012) Emergent grammatical structures of Bahasa Pasar: based on hakka – malay and cantonese – Malay glossaries. GEMA: Online Journal of Language Studies, 12 (3). pp. 865-884. ISSN 1675-8021 http://www.ukm.my/ppbl/Gema/gemacurrentissues.html
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description	The Malay language belongs to the Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian language family. It is the mother tongue of the Malay ethnic group and the second language of the Chinese and Tamil ethnic groups in Malaysia (Asmah 1976). Since the mass migration of the Chinese from China to Malaysia in the 19th century, a colloquial form of Malay, Bahasa Pasar, has come into being with the contact of Malay and Chinese language. Various text books on colloquial Malay were published to meet the needs of communication between the local residents and migrants. However, the research on Bahasa Pasar from the perspective of language contact is still not adequate. This paper aims to describe the grammatical features of Bahasa Pasar based on two glossaries published one century ago, Ma La Yu Yue Yin Yi Yi (1890/1912) and Zheng Ke Yin Yi Yi Mu Lai You Hua (1909/1926). Four grammatical structures emergent from the two glossaries will be analyzed, the nominal structure, verb-object structure, yes-no question, and passive structure. The analysis shows that Bahasa Pasar adopts many grammatical features of Chinese dialects. This result indicates that language contact has induced a new variety of Malay, which has syntactic features transferred from Chinese dialects.
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author	Wang Xiaomei,
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title	Emergent grammatical structures of Bahasa Pasar: based on hakka – malay and cantonese – Malay glossaries
title_short	Emergent grammatical structures of Bahasa Pasar: based on hakka – malay and cantonese – Malay glossaries
title_full	Emergent grammatical structures of Bahasa Pasar: based on hakka – malay and cantonese – Malay glossaries
title_fullStr	Emergent grammatical structures of Bahasa Pasar: based on hakka – malay and cantonese – Malay glossaries
title_full_unstemmed	Emergent grammatical structures of Bahasa Pasar: based on hakka – malay and cantonese – Malay glossaries
title_sort	emergent grammatical structures of bahasa pasar: based on hakka – malay and cantonese – malay glossaries
publisher	Penerbit UKM
publishDate	2012
url	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/5546/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/5546/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/5546/1/Vol_12_3_%28865-884%29.pdf
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Emergent grammatical structures of Bahasa Pasar: based on hakka – malay and cantonese – Malay glossaries

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