JOURNAL ARTICLE

Treebanks and World Englishes: A Singapore English perspective.

  • Published In: English World-Wide, 2025, v. 46, n. 1. P. 93 1 of 3

  • Database: Communication Source 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Huang, Nick; Lin, Li; Han, Kunmei; Hing, Jia Wen; Cao, Luwen; Ooi, Vincent; Bao, Zhiming 3 of 3

Abstract

Treebanks (parsed corpora) play an important role in linguistic research, but creating high-quality parses can be very labor-intensive. This paper discusses the prospects of creating such parses in the context of New Englishes and what kinds of research insights parses can deliver. We present Singapore English as a case study. We suggest that despite the many contact-derived lexical and grammatical properties of Singapore English, it is quite feasible to apply an off-the-shelf American English parser to generate parses of Singapore English. In addition, we present an exploratory analysis of noun phrases in a Singapore English treebank, to illustrate the potential of parses and treebanks in research on World Englishes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Additional Information

  • Source:English World-Wide. 2025/01, Vol. 46, Issue 1, p93
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:Language and Linguistics
  • Publication Date:2025
  • ISSN:0172-8865
  • DOI:10.1075/eww.23069.hua
  • Accession Number:184598724
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