Cantonese Particles and Affixal Quantification

Cantonese Particles and Affixal Quantification

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...

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Bibliographic Details
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.
Online Access:Full Text via HEAL-Link
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.

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