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Cantonese Particles and Affixal Quantification - Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory Peppina Po-lun Lee 2012 edition
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Cantonese Particles and Affixal Quantification - Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
Peppina Po-lun Lee
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;
254 pages, 4 black & white tables, biography
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