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Cantonese Particles and Affixal Quantification (Hardcover, 2012)
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Cantonese Particles and Affixal Quantification (Hardcover, 2012)
Series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 87
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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.
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