23.2900, Books: Cantonese Particles and Affixal Quantification: Lee

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From: Jolanda Voogd [Jolanda.Voogd at springer.com]
Subject: Cantonese Particles and Affixal Quantification: Lee

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Title: Cantonese Particles and Affixal Quantification 
Series Title: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory  

Publication Year: 2012 
Publisher: Springer
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Book URL: http://www.springer.com/education+%26+language/linguistics/book/978-94-007-4386-1?changeHeader 

Author: Peppina Po-lun Lee

Hardback: ISBN:  9789400743861 Pages: 266 Price: Europe EURO 99.95

Abstract:

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. 

Linguistic Field(s): Semantics
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): Chinese, Yue (yue)

Written In: English  (eng)

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