Another Example of Hong Kong English - Jackie Chan

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This Jackie Chan interview provides another example of Hong Kong English. I especially notice the morphosyntactic features of the variety, like lack of copula "be" and the lack of -s/-ed tense/plurality suffixes. These features are likely influenced by Cantonese, which doesn't have conjugations or plural nouns like English.

Posted by Maeve Lichtenberg on November 14, 2023

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