Aspects of the verbal system of Malaysian english and other englishes

This article reports findings from a comprehensive corpus-based study of several verbal categories in Malaysian English (‘ME’): modals/quasi-modals, progressives and present perfects. Comparisons are drawn with a further five varieties of World English: two Inner Circle (‘IC’) and three Outer Circle...

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Main Authors: Peter, Collins, Yao, Xinyue
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM 2013
Online Access:http://journalarticle.ukm.my/6143/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/6143/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/6143/1/1039-5056-1-PB%5B1%5D.pdf