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  title info:
    title: Cantonese Particles and Affixal Quantification
  name:
    name part: Lee, Peppina Po-lun.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIV, 254 p. online resource.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: Abstract -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Chapter One: Introduction -- Chapter Two: Previous Analyses on Quantification and Cantonese Verbal Suffixes -- Chapter Three: The Quantification Accessibility Hierarchy for Affixal Quantifiers -- Chapter Four: The Syntax-Semantics Mappings of Affixal Quantifiers and Tripartite Structures -- Chapter Five: The Role of Focus in Affixal Quantification --- does quantification in natural language involve one process or two? -- Chapter Six: Affixal Quantification and Its Relation with A- and D-quantifications -- Chapter Seven: Concluding Remarks -- References.
  note: by Peppina Po-lun Lee.
  subject:
    topic: Linguistics
  subject:
    topic: Chinese language
  subject:
    topic: Semantics
  subject:
    topic: Syntax
  subject:
    topic: Linguistics
  subject:
    topic: Syntax
  subject:
    topic: Semantics
  subject:
    topic: Chinese
  classification: P291-298
  classification: 415
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 87
  identifier: 9789400743878
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4387-8
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