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100 1 _aLee, Peppina Po-lun.
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aCantonese Particles and Affixal Quantification
_h[electronic resource] /
_cby Peppina Po-lun Lee.
264 1 _aDordrecht :
_bSpringer Netherlands :
_bImprint: Springer,
_c2012.
300 _aXIII, 253 p. 22 illus.
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490 1 _aStudies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory,
_x0924-4670 ;
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505 0 _aAbstract -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Chapter One: Introduction   -- Chapter Two: Previous Analyses on Quantification and Cantonese Verbal Suffixes -- Chapter Three: The Quantification Accessibility Hierarchy for Affixal Quantifiers -- Chapter Four: The Syntax-Semantics Mappings of Affixal Quantifiers and Tripartite Structures -- Chapter Five: The Role of Focus in Affixal Quantification --- does quantification in natural language involve one process or two? -- Chapter Six: Affixal Quantification and Its Relation with A- and D-quantifications -- Chapter Seven: Concluding Remarks -- References.
520 _aCantonese, 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.
650 0 _aLinguistics.
650 0 _aChinese language.
650 0 _aSemantics.
650 0 _aGrammar, Comparative and general
_xSyntax.
650 1 4 _aLinguistics.
650 2 4 _aSyntax.
650 2 4 _aSemantics.
650 2 4 _aChinese.
710 2 _aSpringerLink (Online service)
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776 0 8 _iPrinted edition:
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830 0 _aStudies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory,
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856 4 0 _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4387-8
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