Cantonese Particles and Affixal Quantification

• Main Author: Lee, Peppina Po-lun (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 87
• Subjects: Linguistics.; Chinese language.; Semantics.; Syntax.; Chinese.

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...