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Focus Manifestation in Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese - A Comparative Perspective (Paperback)
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Focus Manifestation in Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese - A Comparative Perspective (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Chinese Linguistics
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One prominent function of natural language is to convey
information. One peculiarity is that it does not do so randomly,
but in a structured way, with information structuring formally
recognized to be a component of grammar. Among all information
structuring notions, focus is one primitive needed to account for
all phenomena. Focus Manifestation in Mandarin Chinese and
Cantonese: A Comparative Perspective aims to examine from a
semantic perspective how syntactic structures and focus adverbs in
Mandarin Chinese and semantic particles in Cantonese conspire to
encode focus structures and determine focus manifestation in
Chinese. With both being tonal languages, Mandarin Chinese and
Cantonese manifest different morpho-syntactic configurations to
mark focus. A general principle governing focus marking in Mandarin
Chinese and Cantonese is given in the book, which aims to give a
better understanding of the underlying principles the two use to
mark additive and restrictive meanings, and related focus
interpretations. Particular attention is also drawn to the
co-occurrence of multiple forms of restrictive and additive
particles in Cantonese, including adverbs, verbal suffixes and
sentence-final particles. Linearity has been shown to be an
important parameter to determine how focus is structured in
Cantonese. This book is aimed at advanced graduate students,
researchers, and scholars working on Chinese linguistics, syntax
and semantics, and comparative dialectal grammar.
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