The English Lexifed Creole language I’m doing is Singlish. The reason why I chose this creole language was because it was second choice to me doing Gullah creole. I original wanted to do Gullah because my family is from North Carolina, some still living there where Gullah is spoken. So I always wondered if my grandma pronunciation of the word ‘rench instead of rinse came from back in the day talk or from Gullah. However because other member from the class did Gullah too I wanted to do something different, so I choose the other creole language I was interested in. I found it fascinating that people of Asian distinct have an “creole” language because usually when you think creole language you think of Jamaican patois, Guyanese, and Trinidadian. Finding the resources for this language or finding academic resources for Singlish was as difficult as expected. So I’m using both academic and website resources. As for the spoken form I found from an website dated in 2016 that ” Singlish is a language that the government of Singapore is trying to get rid of, even by putting on events that encourage citizens to “speak good English”. Some other things I learned is that it’s a pidgin language that was the result of British colonization.  Also that Singlish is consist of English, Malay, Cantonese, and Hokkien Chinese.

Resources are the York College library

Hall, Keith. “Simply Singlish.” Verbatim, Spring 2004, p. 7+. Academic OneFile, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A119369912/AONE?u=cuny_york&sid=AONE&xid=f71b946d. Accessed 1 June 2018.

https://alphaomegatranslations.com/foreign-language/singlish-a-singaporean-creole-language/

http://www.academia.edu/6050106/A_Comparison_of_Singlish_and_Creole_Languages

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singlish

Negation Marking

• The negator is always a separate word and invariant in form. In the majority of known pidgin and creoles, negation markers occurs before the verb; however, there are some exceptions to this (the negator in Hiri Motu comes after the verb).

Sebba

• Negation is a common strategy in argumentation. In arguing a point of view, it is often necessary to negate an opposing viewpoint, to refute an argument, and to remove misunderstanding through the use of negation. In English, negative markers can be divided into three groups: Not-negator, N-negator (or No-negator) and negative affix.

https://www.ln.edu.hk/eng/rhetoric/Argumentative/Negation.html

Inflectional Morphology

• Process of word formation which mark grammatical relations.

Sebba

• Inflectional morphology is expressed in terms of synthetic terminal desinences which are added to the stems of inflected  parts  of  speech:  nouns,  adjectives,  verbs,  and  most  Inflectional desinences conflate all relevant categories (gender, number,  and  case  for  nouns  and adjectives;  person  and  number  for  non-past  conjugations;  and  gender,   person,  and  number   for past  conjugations)  and  consist  of  from  zero  to  three  morphemes.

Czech

by Laura A. Janda and Charles E. Townsend

© SEELRC 2002

Derivational Marking

• Affects word-class membership and meaning.

Sebba

• Derivational morphology is defined as morphology that creates new lexemes, either by changing the syntactic category (part of speech) of a base or by adding substantial, non-grammatical meaning or both.

Derivational Morphology

Rochelle Lieber

I picked these because they are still a little hard to understand even though I have researched them however I find Sebba definition of Derivational and Inflectional interesting because of how short and simple they are regardless of the fact that many other linguistic still find them to be complex.