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Gisborne, Nikolas – World Englishes, 2000
Discusses relative clauses in Hong Kong English and considers questions about its morphosyntactic feature system, comparing relevant attestations from local data to those found in other varieties of English. Examines ways relative constructions in Cantonese may affect how relative clauses in Hong Kong English are formed and how the relative clause…
Descriptors: Cantonese, Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries