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Cantonese : a comprehensive grammar / Stephen Matthews and Virginia Yip.
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Title:Cantonese : a comprehensive grammar / Stephen Matthews and Virginia Yip.
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Author/Creator:Matthews, Stephen, 1963-
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Other Contributors/Collections:Yip, Virginia, 1962-
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Published/Created:Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2011.
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Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
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Call Number: PL1733 .M38 2011
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Number of Items:1
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Status:Available
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Links:Donor bookplate
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Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
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Library of Congress Subjects:Cantonese dialects--Grammar.
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Edition:2nd ed.
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Description:xxiii, 510 p. ; 24 cm
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Series:Routledge comprehensive grammars.
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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ISBN:9780415471305 (alk. paper)
0415471303 (alk. paper)
9780415471312 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0415471311 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780203835012 (ebk. : alk. paper)
0203835018 (ebk. : alk. paper)
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Contents:Machine generated contents note: language and its speakers
descriptive approach
fallacy of `correct' pronunciation
Cantonese and Mandarin
Spoken and written Cantonese
Cantonese characters
Romanization
Examples
Revisions to the second edition
Linguistic literature on Cantonese
Dictionaries
Learning Cantonese
1. Phonology: the Cantonese sound system
1.1. Consonants
1.1.1. Initial consonants
1.1.2. Unreleased consonants
1.1.3. Nasal and liquid consonants
1.1.4. Syllabic nasals
1.2. Vowels
1.2.1. Vowel quality
1.2.2. Vowel length
1.2.3. Diphthongs
1.3. Syllable structure
1.3.1. Initials and finals
1.4. Tone
1.4.1. basic tones
1.4.2. Tone change
1.4.3. Tone and intonation
1.5. Variation and change in pronunciation
1.5.1. Consonants
1.5.2. Tones
2. Word structure: morphology and word formation
2.1. Reduplication
2.1.1. Reduplication of nouns and classifiers
2.1.2. Reduplication of verbs and adjectives
2.1.3. Onomatopoeic and sound-symbolic reduplication
2.2. Prefixes and suffixes
2.2.1. Prefixes
2.2.2. Suffixes
2.2.3. Infixes
2.3. Compounding
2.3.1. Compound nouns
2.3.2. Compound adjectives
2.3.3. Verb-object compounds
2.3.4. Subject-verb compounds
3. Syntactic categories: parts of speech in Cantonese
3.1. Comparability of syntactic categories
3.1.1. Verbs versus adjectives
3.1.2. Verbs and auxiliaries
3.1.3. Coverbs/prepositions
3.1.4. Localizers/postpositions
3.1.5. Classifiers
3.1.6. Adverbs
3.1.7. Verbal and sentence particles
3.1.8. Conjunctions
4. Sentence structure: word order and topicalization
4.1. Basic word order: subject, verb and object
4.1.1. [Subject + object + verb] order
4.1.2. [Verb + subject] order
4.1.3. Right-dislocation
4.2. Topicalization and topic prominence
4.2.1. Topicalization of the object
4.2.2. Hanging topics and double subjects
4.2.3. Secondary topicalization
4.2.4. Verb fronting
4.2.5. Definite subjects and existential sentences
4.2.6. Topic chains
5. Pronouns
5.1. Personal pronouns
5.1.1. Animate, inanimate and expletive keuih
5.1.2. Omitted pronouns
5.2. Reflexive pronouns
5.2.1. jihgei
5.2.2. [Pronoun + jihgei]
5.2.3. Syntax of reflexive pronouns
5.3. Reciprocals: each other
6. noun phrase
6.1. Definiteness and demonstratives
6.1.1. [Classifier + noun] phrases
6.1.2. Demonstratives
6.1.3. Demonstratives in apposition
6.2. Noun classifiers
6.2.1. Syntax and usage of classifiers
6.2.2. Measure (quantity) classifiers
6.2.3. Sortal (type) classifiers
6.2.4. Alternative classifiers
6.2.5. Verbal classifier phrases
6.3. Possessive constructions
6.3.1. Possessive constructions with ge
6.3.2. Possessive constructions with classifier
6.3.3. Associative constructions
7. Prepositions and expressions of location
7.1. Location
7.1.1. Spatial location: coverbs and localizers
7.1.2. Distance and movement
7.1.3. Direction
7.1.4. Placement
7.2. Non-spatial relationships
7.2.1. Coverbs
7.2.2. Non-spatial localizers/postpositions
8. verb phrase
8.1. Types of verb
8.1.1. verb haih `be'
8.1.2. Stative verbs
8.1.3. Verbs of perception
8.1.4. Verbs of cognition
8.2. Objects of the verb and transitivity
8.2.1. Direct and directional objects
8.2.2. Double object verbs and indirect objects
8.2.3. Quantified objects
8.2.4. Verb-object compounds
8.2.5. Adverbial objects
8.3. Serial verbs
8.3.1. Directional verbs and verbs of motion
8.3.2. Serial constructions expressing actions
8.3.3. jeung construction
8.4. Passives
8.4.1. Indirect passives
8.4.2. Resultative passives
8.5. Causative and resultative constructions
8.5.1. Causative constructions
8.5.2. Resultative compounds
8.5.3. Resultative and extent complements
8.5.4. Inverted resultative constructions
9. Adjectival constructions: description and comparison
9.1. Syntax of adjectives
9.1.1. Predicative adjectives
9.1.2. Attributive adjectives
9.1.3. Modification of adjectives
9.2. Reduplication of adjectives
9.2.1. AA and AABB reduplication
9.2.2. [Adjective + adjective + dei]
9.2.3. ABB adjectives
9.3. Comparison of adjectives
9.3.1. Degrees of comparison
9.3.2. Equal comparisons
9.3.3. Negative and interrogative comparisons
9.3.4. Excessives
9.3.5. Superlatives
9.4. Complementation: complex structures with adjectives
9.4.1. Adjectives of ease and difficulty
9.4.2. Evaluative constructions
10. Adverbial constructions
10.1. Adverbs modifying the verb phrase
10.1.1. dak
10.1.2. gam
10.1.3. gam and gam jaih
10.1.4. Reduplicated adverbs
10.2. Comparison of adverbs
10.3. Sentence adverbs: modifying the sentence
10.3.1. Position of sentence adverbs
10.3.2. Adverbs of quantity
10.3.3. Adverbs of time
10.3.4. Adverbs of frequency
10.4. Adverbial phrases
10.4.1. Viewpoint adverbs
11. Aspect and verbal particles
11.1. Aspect and the expression of time
11.2. Aspect markers
11.2.1. Syntax of aspect markers
11.2.2. Progressive: gan, haidouh
11.2.3. Continuous: jyuh
11.2.4. Perfective: jo
11.2.5. Experiential: gwo
11.2.6. yauh and mouh as auxiliaries
11.2.7. Delimitative: hah
11.2.8. Inchoative and continuative: hei-seuhng-laih and lohk-heui
11.2.9. Habitual: hoi and gwaan
11.3. Verbal particles
11.3.1. Directional particles
11.3.2. Resultative particles
11.3.3. Quantifying particles
11.3.4. Adversative/habitual chan
12. Modality: possibility and probability
12.1. Modal verbs
12.1.1. Possibility and permission
12.1.2. Ability
12.1.3. Necessity
12.1.4. Obligation
12.1.5. Volition: wishes and desires
12.1.6. Preference
12.2. Modal adverbs
12.2.1. Adverbs of possibility
12.2.2. Adverbs of necessity
12.3. Syntactic constructions expressing modality
12.3.1. [Verb + dak]: expressing potential
12.3.2. [yauh/mouh dak + verb]
12.3.3. [Verb + mh + verbal particle]: expressing inability
13. Negation
13.1. Lexical negation: negative verbs and adjectives
13.2. Adjectival negation
13.3. Verbal negation
13.4. Indefinite negation: not ... any
13.5. Double negatives
13.6. Negative wh-constructions
14. Quantification and existential sentences
14.1. Universal quantification: all, every and each
14.1.1. Syntax of dou
14.1.2. Reduplicated quantifiers
14.1.3. so yauh (ge)
14.1.4. muih `each, every'
14.1.5. Any
14.2. Relative quantities: much/many, little/few
14.2.1. Comparing quantities: more and less
14.2.2. Most
14.3. Existential sentences
14.3.1. Indefinite some
14.3.2. Negative none, no one, nothing
15. Relative and noun-modifying clauses
15.1. Restrictive and non-restrictive relative clauses
15.2. Relative clauses with ge
15.3. Relative clauses with classifier
15.4. Resumptive pronouns
15.5. Attributive clauses
15.6. Free relative clauses
16. Coordination and subordinate clauses
16.1. Coordination
16.1.1. Coordination of words and phrases
16.1.2. Lists
16.1.3. Coordination of clauses
16.1.4. Disjunction: either ... or
16.2. Subordinate clauses
16.2.1. Time clauses
16.2.2. Reason clauses
16.2.3. Purpose clauses
16.2.4. Concessive clauses: although
16.3. Conditional sentences
16.3.1. Explicit conditionals
16.3.2. Implicit conditionals
16.3.3. Negative conditionals: if not, unless
16.4. Cleft sentences and emphasis
16.5. Indirect speech
17. Questions
17.1. Yes/no questions
17.1.1. Particle questions
17.1.2. A-not-A questions
17.1.3. Copular questions: haih-mhaih
17.1.4. Perfective questions: meih
17.1.5. Existential questions: yauh-mouh
17.1.6. Tag questions
17.1.7. Intonation and echo questions
17.1.8. Responses to yes/no questions
17.1.9. Replies to negative questions
17.2. Alternative questions
17.3. W/h-questions
17.3.1. Who questions
17.3.2. What questions
17.3.3. Which questions
17.3.4. Where questions
17.3.5. When and time questions
17.3.6. Why questions: reason and purpose
17.3.7. How questions: manner and degree
17.3.8. How many/how much
17.3.9. Fronted wh-questions
17.4. Indirect questions
17.5. Multiple questions
17.6. Exclamatory questions
18. Sentence particles and interjections
18.1. Role of the sentence particle
18.1.1. Pronunciation: tone and intonation
18.2. Syntax of sentence-final particles
18.2.1. Topic particles
18.2.2. Clause-final particles
18.2.3. Particle combinations
18.3. Functions of the particles
18.3.1. Question particles
18.3.2. Assertive particles
18.3.3. Imperative and persuasive particles
18.3.4. Evidential particles
18.3.5. Exclamatory and affective particles
18.3.6. Adverbial particles
18.4. Interjections
18.4.1. Place-fillers
18.4.2. Exclamations
19. Imperative sentences: commands and requests
19.1. Second person imperatives
Contents note continued: 19.2. First person imperatives
19.3. Third person imperatives
19.4. Negative imperatives
19.5. Indirect commands
20. Cantonese speech conventions: politeness and terms of address
20.1. Politeness conventions
20.1.1. Requests
20.1.2. Thanks
20.1.3. Apologies
20.1.4. Compliments
20.1.5. Introductions
20.2. Terms of address
20.3. Kinship terms
20.3.1. Parents and grandparents
20.3.2. Brothers, sisters and cousins
20.3.3. Relations by marriage
20.3.4. Children and grandchildren
20.3.5. Kinship dyads
20.4. Greetings
20.5. Telephone expressions
20.6. Trendy language
21. Numerals and times
21.1. Numerals
21.1.1. Decimals and figures
21.1.2. Abbreviations
21.1.3. Approximations
21.1.4. Cardinal numbers
21.1.5. Ordinal numbers
21.1.6. Fractions and percentages
21.1.7. Lucky and taboo numbers
21.2. Days and months
21.2.1. Dates
21.3. Times of day.