Vivienne Fong
Biographic Data
| ID | 3850540 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vivienne Fong |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vivienne |
| FAMILY NAME | Fong |
| SIGNATURE | FONG V |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Singapore |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
On the Generic Usage of Yi in Literary Sinitic
While premodern China is known for its Sino-centrism that tended to regard all foreigners as uncivilized, it is widely believed that there is no Sinitic word denoting all aliens collectively. According to the Ru canon, Literary Sinitic appears to generalize outsiders as directional units instead. Recent proposals suggest that the term yi, primarily referring to foreign people in the east although its interpretation continues to be a subject of de…
Variation and opacity in Singapore English consonant clusters
Singapore English consonant clusters undergo phonological processes that exhibit variation and opacity. Quantitative evidence shows that these patterns are genuine and systematic. Two main conclusions emerge. First, a small set of phonological constraints yields a typological structure (T-order) that captures the quantitative patterns, independently of specific assumptions about how the grammar represents variation. Second, the evidence is consis…
Variation, ambiguity, and noun classes in English
“Singlish”
The term “Singlish” figures prominently in local discussions of English in Singapore. But because the term has been used by different people to mean different things, this has resulted in (undetected) confusion, leading to discussions where not much progress is being made. In this paper, we first attempt to tear apart the various meanings of “Singlish”. We then discuss how these different uses of “Singlish”, and, by implication, its contrast with…
The Partitive Constraint in Optimality Theory
This paper discusses a case of syntax/semantics interaction of a characteristically optimality-theoretic kind. Finnish partitive constructions exhibit a case alternation that is partly semantically, partly syntactically driven. The crucial semantic condition that plays a role in case selection is quantitative determinacy, which replaces the definitenes condition familiar from the Partitive Constraint. The crucial syntactic condition is the Case-O…
The Partitive Constraint in Optimality Theory
This paper discusses a case of syntax/semantics interaction of a characteristically optimality-theoretic kind. Finnish partitive constructions exhibit a case alternation that is partly semantically, partly syntactically driven. The crucial semantic condition that plays a role in case selection is quantitative determinacy, which replaces the definitenes condition familiar from the Partitive Constraint. The crucial syntactic condition is the Case-O…
“Singlish”
The term “Singlish” figures prominently in local discussions of English in Singapore. But because the term has been used by different people to mean different things, this has resulted in (undetected) confusion, leading to discussions where not much progress is being made. In this paper, we first attempt to tear apart the various meanings of “Singlish”. We then discuss how these different uses of “Singlish”, and, by implication, its contrast with…
Variation, ambiguity, and noun classes in English
Variation and opacity in Singapore English consonant clusters
Singapore English consonant clusters undergo phonological processes that exhibit variation and opacity. Quantitative evidence shows that these patterns are genuine and systematic. Two main conclusions emerge. First, a small set of phonological constraints yields a typological structure (T-order) that captures the quantitative patterns, independently of specific assumptions about how the grammar represents variation. Second, the evidence is consis…
On the Generic Usage of Yi in Literary Sinitic
While premodern China is known for its Sino-centrism that tended to regard all foreigners as uncivilized, it is widely believed that there is no Sinitic word denoting all aliens collectively. According to the Ru canon, Literary Sinitic appears to generalize outsiders as directional units instead. Recent proposals suggest that the term yi, primarily referring to foreign people in the east although its interpretation continues to be a subject of de…
Linguistics (5 works) · Mathematics (3 works) · Optimality theory (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (3 works) · Ambiguity (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Grammar (2 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (2 works) · Natural Language Processing Techniques (2 works)