Nativisation and acceptability in Malaysian English

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Wahid, Ridwan
• التنسيق: Conference or Workshop Item
• اللغة: English; English
• منشور في: 2013
• الموضوعات: P Philology. Linguistics; PE English
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: http://irep.iium.edu.my/34673/1/ESEA_2013_Tentative_Conference_Programme-vFINAL.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/34673/5/Nativisation_and_Acceptability_in_Malaysian_English.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/34673/

Malaysian English (ME) grammar is said to contain unique, local features that exist alongside exonormative counterparts. Such usages are often regarded as errors by prescriptivists although their widespread use especially through the basilect and mesolect may prompt some descriptivists to label them...