This article focuses on one particular linguistic feature of Singapore Colloquial English ( SCE ), sentence-final what , which has been referred to as an ‘objection particle’. SCE (Smith, 1985: 126)Context: Discussion of a student who is going overseas for one month and will be missing classes.a. He’ll never pass the third year.b. It’s only for one month what .Sentence-final what in SCE is analyzed in its (synchronic) behavior and (diachronic) development, and the proposal made by the authors is that sentence-final what is a result of a process which started in British English.

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关于 Singlish 中的句末“what”：你是英国女王，还是什么？

本文重点介绍新加坡口语英语 (SCE) 的一个特殊语言特征，即句末什么，它被称为“反对词”。SCE (Smith, 1985: 126) 背景：讨论一个要去海外一个月并且缺课的学生。他永远不会通过第三年。仅在一个月内分析了 SCE 中的（共时）行为和（历时）发展中的 .Sentence-final 内容，作者提出的建议是该句子-final 是从英国开始的过程的结果英语。