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