Got-interrogatives and answers in Colloquial Singapore English

Bibliographic Data

ID2269110
AuthorsMie Hiramoto (0000-0001-6090-6873, National University of Singapore, corresponding author), Yosuke Sato (0000-0003-3631-379X)
Year2012
Volume31
Issue2
Pages198-207
Publication date2012-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueWorld Englishes (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0883-2919 • E-ISSN: 1467-971X
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-971x.2012.01750.x
OpenAlexW2153166436
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited15

This paper investigates the use ofgotin interrogative sentences and their corresponding answers in Colloquial Singapore English (CSE). Lee, Ling, and Nomoto analyze CSEgotas a realis marker from which several different meanings are derived, including temporal location, aspect, and emphasis. While following in their essential claims, we propose that the acceptability of thegot-interrogatives and their answers depends on the inherent lexical aspect of the verb (aktionsart) that accompaniesgotin interrogative sentences. Concerninggot-interrogatives and their answers, we discuss situation-based sentences that denote the experiential, habitual, and completive aspects, as well as those sentences that have stative meanings. We suggest that stative sentences are critical to our aspectual analysis, as the notion of stativity, rather than realis vs. irrealis distinction, is the primary determinant of the acceptability judgments concerning the situational interpretations of the got-interrogatives and their answers

Interrogative · Interrogative word · Linguistics · Malayalam · Situational ethics · Verb · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

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