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Spoken in a multilingual environment characterised by continuous contacts with other languages, Singapore English
(SgE) is a singular object of study. Its modal system has also been developing in independent ways compared to inner-circle
varieties, e.g. British English, its historical ancestor. Different approaches have attempted to explain such developments,
including the substratist and the grammaticalisation approaches. The present paper explores both these approaches with the aim of
examining the role that they may have in the development of the (semi-)modal verbs of necessity in SgE. Using some corpus analysis
conducted on informal data, it will be shown why the substratist approach does not seem sufficient to explain the relatively
frequent non-epistemic uses of must in SgE. It will be discussed how SgE must could be instead
replicating older dynamic uses, typical of Middle English times (1100–1500 CE), according to a process known as
replica grammaticalisation as recapitulation (Ziegeler 2014).
期刊介绍:
English World-Wide has established itself as the leading and most comprehensive journal dealing with varieties of English. The focus is on scholarly discussions of new findings in the dialectology and sociolinguistics of the English-speaking communities (native and second-language speakers), but general problems of sociolinguistics, creolistics, language planning, multilingualism and modern historical sociolinguistics are included if they have a direct bearing on modern varieties of English. Although teaching problems are normally excluded, English World-Wide provides important background information for all those involved in teaching English throughout the world.