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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.

Cantonese dialects -- Affixes. --- Cantonese dialects -- Particles. --- Chinese language. --- Cantonese dialects --- Languages & Literatures --- Philology & Linguistics --- East Asian Languages & Literatures --- Particles --- Affixes --- Chinese language --- Particles. --- Grammar. --- Yue dialects --- Yüeh dialects --- Dialects --- Canton --- Linguistics. --- Semantics. --- Syntax. --- Chinese. --- Grammar, Comparative and general. --- Sino-Tibetan languages --- Formal semantics --- Semasiology --- Semiology (Semantics) --- Comparative linguistics --- Information theory --- Language and languages --- Lexicology --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Comparative grammar --- Grammar --- Grammar, Philosophical --- Grammar, Universal --- Philosophical grammar --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative --- Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax --- Syntax --- Affixes.

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This book provides a blended approach in outlining the properties of grammatical knowledge that have been causing difficulty to Chinese speaking learners, including tense and aspect, articles, passives, plurality and motion verbs. It explains from different linguistics perspectives how these difficulties might be dealt with. It also offers readers a comprehensive account of these problems, and outlines the possible pedagogical solutions teachers can try in the classroom.

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