Datapoint Singlish/Order of subject, object, and verb

Values

Object-subject-verb (OSV) Frequency: 50.0%

Example 21-2:
Fish I wan.
Fish
fish
I
1sg
wan.
want
I want (some) fish.
Confidence:
Very certain

Subject-verb-object (SVO) Frequency: 50.0%

Example 21-1:
I want some fish.
I
I
want
want
some
some
fish.
fish
I want some fish.
Example 21-10:
So your grandfather had three wives something like that ah?
So
so
your
2sg.poss
grandfather
grandfather
had
have.pst
three
three
wives
wives
something
something
like
like
that
that
ah?
pcl
So your grandfather had three wives or something like that?

Source: Wee and Ansaldo 2004: 68

Example 21-37:
But the boss saw the interview.
But
conj
the
det
boss
boss
saw
see.pst
the
det
interview.
interview
But the boss saw the interview.

Source: Wee and Ansaldo 2004: 60

Confidence:
Very certain