Cantonese Particles and Affixal Quantification
Peppina Po-lun Lee
Springer, 2012
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Cantonese, the lingua franca of Hong Kong and its neighboring province, has an unusually rich repertoire of verbal particles. The author shows how these verbal suffixes display a unique interplay of syntax and semantics: used in a sentence with no focus, they quantify items flexibly, according to an accessibility hierarchy;
- ISBN-13
- 9789400743861
- ISBN-10
- 9400743866
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2012
- Publication date
- 2012-06-22
- Pages
- 254
- Dimensions
- 235x155x