Zhiming Bao

orcid.org/0000-0002-7859-2654

List of John Benjamins publications in which Zhiming Bao is involved.

Journals

Studies in Linguistics

Edited by Miao-Ling Hsieh and Alvin Cheng-Hsien Chen

ISSN 1810-7478 | E‑ISSN 2589‑5230

International Journal of Chinese Linguistics

Edited by Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai, Ning Yu and Hongming Zhang

ISSN 2213-8706 | E‑ISSN 2213‑8714

語言暨語言學

Edited by Rui-wen Wu

ISSN 1606-822X | E‑ISSN 2309‑5067

Titles

Edited by Zhiming Bao

Special issue of Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 38:1 (2023) vi, 206 pp.

Negation and Contact: With special focus on Singapore English

Edited by Debra Ziegeler and Zhiming Bao

The study of negation across languages has left no stone unturned with respect to a range of frequently-researched areas, such as negative raising, negative concord, and the behavior of quantifiers under negative scope. Past research has chiefly focused on the category of negation from a… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 183] 2017. vii, 208 pp.

Articles (16) | Order by:

Huang, Nick, Li Lin, Kunmei Han, Jia Wen Hing, Luwen Cao, Vincent B.Y. Ooi and Zhiming Bao 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

Bao, Zhiming, Ruiqing Shen and Kunmei Han 2023 Languages and language contact in China Language Contact with Chinese, Bao, Zhiming (ed.), pp. 1–13 | Introduction

China is ethnically and linguistically diverse. There are 56 officially recognized ethnic groups in the country, including the majority Han, with a 1.2 billion-strong population and Tatar, the smallest minority group with only 3,556 people residing in Xinjiang, according to the 2010 Population… read more

Cao, Luwen and Zhiming Bao 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

Bao, Zhiming and Luwen Cao 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

Ziegeler, Debra and Zhiming Bao 2017 Introduction Negation and Contact: With special focus on Singapore English, Ziegeler, Debra and Zhiming Bao (eds.), pp. 1–10 | Article

Bao, Zhiming 2013 Review of Lim & Gisborne (2011): The Typology of Asian Englishes English World-Wide 34:2, pp. 241–244 | Review

Bao, Zhiming and Khin Khin Aye 2012 Bazaar Malay topics Pidgins and Creoles in Asia, Ansaldo, Umberto (ed.), pp. 151–167 | Article

Bazaar Malay is a Malay-lexified pidgin with a Chinese substratum spoken in the marketplace of Singapore (and elsewhere in Southeast Asia). Although it is no longer a lingua franca in Singapore today, it is nevertheless still spoken by older Singaporeans. Like Chinese and Malay, Bazaar Malay is a… read more

Bao, Zhiming 2011 One in Singapore English Language Change in Contact Languages: Grammatical and prosodic considerations, Clements, J. Clancy and Shelome Gooden (eds.), pp. 79–106 | Article

This paper investigates the grammar and usage of one in Singapore English, which exhibits the influence of both Chinese and English, the two dominant languages in the multilingual ecology of Singapore English, as well as the influence of relevant linguistic universals. The grammar of one is… read more

Bao, Zhiming 2011 Convergence-to-substratum and the passives in Singapore English Creoles, their Substrates, and Language Typology, Lefebvre, Claire (ed.), pp. 253–270 | Article

Singapore English is a non-native variety of English that has emerged from intense contact with the local languages, mainly Chinese and Malay. It has two passive forms appropriated from the local languages, in addition to the English passives (be V-en and get V-en). In this paper, I study the usage… read more

Bao, Zhiming 2010 Review of Branner (2006): The Chinese rime tables: Linguistic philosophy and historical-comparative phonology Chinese Language and Discourse 1:1, pp. 134–137 | Review

Bao, Zhiming and Khin Khin Aye 2010 Bazaar Malay topics Pidgins and Creoles in Asian Contexts, Ansaldo, Umberto (ed.), pp. 155–171 | Article

Bao, Zhiming 2009 One in Singapore English Language Change in Contact Languages: Grammatical and prosodic considerations, Clements, J. Clancy and Shelome Gooden (eds.), pp. 338–365 | Article

Bao, Zhiming and Lye Hui Min 2005 Systemic Transfer, Topic Prominence, and the Bare Conditional in Singapore English Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 20:2, pp. 269–291 | Article

Colloquial Singapore English has a novel conditional construction in which the conditional clause is not marked morphosyntactically, and must precede the consequent clause. We show that Singapore English, like Chinese, the main substrate language, is topic prominent, and the novel conditional… read more

Bao, Zhiming 2003 Review of Chappell (2001): Sinitic grammar: Synchronic and diachronic perspectives Functions of Language 10:1, pp. 116–122 | Review

Bao, Zhiming 2001 The origins of empty categories in Singapore English Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 16:2, pp. 275–319 | Article

The system of empty categories in Singapore English, a contact language with an endogenous ecology, arises through the interaction of three parameters: [topic-prominence], [pro-drop], and [wh-movement]. These parameters are reset under the pressure of the languages in the contact ecology, mainly… read more

Alsagoff, Lubna, Zhiming Bao and Lionel Wee 1998 Why You Talk Like That? The Pragmatics of a Why Construction in Singapore English English World-Wide 19:2, pp. 247–260 | Article

In this paper, we examine one wh-construction in Singapore English, which signals a demand for justification, and show that there is a systematic correlation between its structural and pragmatic properties. We suggest that this wh-construction is based on the imperative, and inherits the… read more