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Cantonese Particles and Affixal Quantification
Peppina Po-Lun Lee
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Hardback. This book significantly augments the academic literature on Cantonese verbal particles and their semantics, focusing on three affixal quantifiers, -saai, -hoi and -maai, and showing how these verbal suffixes display a unique interplay of syntax and semantics. Series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. Num Pages: 254 pages, 4 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: 2GDCC; CFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 553.
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. ... Read more
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. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
254
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
Number of Pages
254
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9789400743861
SKU
V9789400743861
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