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Cantonese Particles and Affixal Quantification

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Authors:
  1. Peppina Po-lun Lee

    1. , Dept. of Chinese, Translation & Ling., City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong SAR

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  • The first book-length study on affixal quantification and Cantonese verbal affixes
  • Provides a detailed comparison between affixal quantification, determiner quantification, and adverbial quantification
  • Includes syntax-semantics mapping approach and a combination of theoretical and descriptive methods, which makes the book an indispensible resource

Part of the book series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory (SNLT, volume 87)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Peppina Po-lun Lee
    Pages 1-8

  3. Previous Analyses on Quantification and Cantonese Verbal Suffixes

    • Peppina Po-lun Lee
    Pages 9-57

  4. The Quantification Accessibility Hierarchy for Affixal Quantifiers

    • Peppina Po-lun Lee
    Pages 59-120

  5. The Syntax-Semantics Mappings of Affixal Quantifiers and Tripartite Structures

    • Peppina Po-lun Lee
    Pages 121-161

  6. The Role of Focus in Affixal Quantification – Does Quantification in Natural Language Involve One Process or Two?

    • Peppina Po-lun Lee
    Pages 163-204

  7. Affixal Quantification and Its Relation with A- and D-Quantifications

    • Peppina Po-lun Lee
    Pages 205-232

  8. Concluding Remarks

    • Peppina Po-lun Lee
    Pages 233-242

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 243-253
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About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • , Dept. of Chinese, Translation & Ling., City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong SAR

    Peppina Po-lun Lee

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Cantonese Particles and Affixal Quantification

  • Authors: Peppina Po-lun Lee

  • Series Title: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4387-8

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2012

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-4386-1Published: 22 June 2012

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9511-2Published: 18 July 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-4387-8Published: 21 June 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0924-4670

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-0358

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 254

  • Topics: Syntax, Semantics, Chinese

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