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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), and few can be said to have a consistent grammatical function. They are notorious for being extremely resistant to conventional syntactic and semantic analysis. The aim of this book is to seek a better understanding of utterance particles by concentrating analytical attention on three of them.

Chinese languages --- Pragmatics --- Dialectology --- Cantonese dialects --- Chinese language --- Yue dialects --- Yüeh dialects --- Particles. --- Dialects. --- Dialects --- Canton --- Chinois (langue) --- Canton (chine) --- Particules --- Langue