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Cantonese Particles and Affixal Quantification

By: Peppina Po-lun Lee

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Cantonese Particles and Affixal Quantification

By: Peppina Po-lun Lee

Cantonese, the lingua franca of Hong Kong and its neighboring province, has an unusually rich repertoire of verbal particles. This volume significantly augments the academic literature on their semantics, focusing on three affixal quantifiers, -saai, -hoi and -maai. 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; with focus, focus comes into effect after syntactic selection. This fresh and compelling perspective in the study of particles and quantification is the first in-depth analysis of Cantonese verbal suffixes. It compares the language’s affixal quantification to the alternative determiner and adverbial quantifiers. The book’s syntax-semantics mapping geography deploys both descriptive and theoretical approaches, making it an essential resource for researchers studying the nexus of syntax and semantics, as well as Cantonese itself.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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9400743874

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9789400743878

Focus Manifestation in Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese

A Comparative Perspective

By: Peppina Po-lun Lee

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Focus Manifestation in Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese

A Comparative Perspective

By: Peppina Po-lun Lee

One prominent function of natural language is to convey information. One peculiarity is that it does not do so randomly, but in a structured way, with information structuring formally recognized to be a component of grammar. Among all information structuring notions, focus is one primitive needed to account for all phenomena. Focus Manifestation in Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese: A Comparative Perspective aims to examine from a semantic perspective how syntactic structures and focus adverbs in Mandarin Chinese and semantic particles in Cantonese conspire to encode focus structures and determine focus manifestation in Chinese. With both as tonal languages, Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese manifest different morpho-syntactic configurations to mark focus. A general principle governing focus marking in Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese is given in the book, which aims to give a better understanding on the underlying principles the two used to mark additive and restrictive meanings, and related focus interpretations. Particular attention is also drawn to the co-occurrence of multiple forms of restrictive and additive particles in Cantonese, including adverbs, verbal suffixes and sentence-final particles. Linearity has shown to be an important parameter to determine how focus is structured in Cantonese. This book is aimed at advanced graduate students, researchers and scholars working on Chinese linguistics, syntax and semantics, and comparative dialectal grammar.

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1351339664

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Focus Manifestation in Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese

A Comparative Perspective

By: Peppina Po-lun Lee

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Focus Manifestation in Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese

A Comparative Perspective

By: Peppina Po-lun Lee

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Cantonese Particles and Affixal Quantification

Cantonese Particles and Affixal Quantification

Focus Manifestation in Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese

Focus Manifestation in Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese

Focus Manifestation in Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese

Focus Manifestation in Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese

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