Luwen Cao
List of John Benjamins publications in which Luwen Cao is involved.
Articles
2025 Treebanks and World Englishes: A Singapore English perspective English World-Wide 46:1, pp. 93–121 | Article
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… read more
2018 Negation in Singapore English Negation and Negative Concord: The view from Creoles, Déprez, Viviane and Fabiola Henri (eds.), pp. 153–170 | Chapter
Singapore English is a new variety of English that has developed unique grammatical characteristics due to contact with the heritage languages of Singapore, especially Chinese. In this paper, we document the morphosyntax of negation in Singapore English, using data culled from available databases,… read more
2017 Negative raising in Singapore English Negation and Contact: With special focus on Singapore English, Ziegeler, Debra and Zhiming Bao (eds.), pp. 151–170 | Article
Negative raising is common in English and Singapore English, and a casual visitor to Singapore can easily observe instances of this phenomenon. It is not attested in Chinese, the main heritage language of Singapore. We know that Singapore English has incorporated grammatical constructions from… read more