While much has been written about the unique set of discourse particles in colloquial Singapore English, other discourse markers which belong to the common core of English have been neglected. This paper deals with basically, a rather recent addition to the paradigm of discourse markers which typically move along the following clines in their development: clause-internal adverbial > sentence adverbial > discourse particle; scope within the proposition > scope over the proposition > scope over discourse. This paper will use the evidence from the Singaporean subcorpus of the International Corpus of English (ICE) to trace the functions and contexts for basically and to determine whether the grammaticalization clines proposed on the basis of British English also hold for an Outer Circle variety such as Singapore English with its rich array of indigenized discourse particles.

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基本上是新加坡英语

虽然已经有很多关于口语新加坡英语中独特的语篇粒子集的文章，但其他属于英语共同核心的语篇标记却被忽视了。这篇论文基本上讨论了对话语标记范式的一个相当新的补充，这些标记在它们的发展过程中通常沿着以下方向移动：从句内部状语 > 句子状语 > 话语助词；命题内的范围 > 命题之上的范围 > 话语之上的范围。本文将使用来自国际英语语料库（ICE）新加坡语料库的证据来追溯基本的功能和语境。 并确定在英式英语基础上提出的语法化倾向是否也适用于外圈变体，例如新加坡英语，其具有丰富的本土化话语粒子。