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Utterance particles in Cantonese conversation
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Utterance particles in Cantonese conversation
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Utterance particles in Cantonese conversation
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Utterance particles, also known as modal particles or sentence-final particles, form a class of words in Cantonese which is of great descriptive and theoretical interest to students of language. Most utterance particles do not have any semantic content (truth-conditional meaning…
"While a number of grammars of Mandarin Chinese are available, no reference grammar of Cantonese has appeared in English since 1959. Developments since then, in the language as well as in linguistic description, have been far-reaching. This is the first truly comprehensive refer…
Biographical note: Carine Yuk-man Yiu, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China. This comprehensive study concentrates particularly on the use of a closed set of motion verbs in five of the major dialects, including Mandarin, Wú, Hakka, M?n and Cantonese. The a…
Cantonese: a comprehensive grammar
by Matthews, Stephen, Yip, Virginia
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