Cantonese particles and affixal quantification
Auteur :
Lee, Peppina Po-lun
Éditeur :
Springer
ISBN :
9789400743861
Date de publication :
22 juin 2012
Dimensions :
23,5 x 15,5 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Nederlands
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;