The Syntax and Semantics of Cantonese Particles in the Left Periphery
Adopting the cartographic approach, this paper proposes syntactic positions for all left-periphery particles above the tense phrase (TP) in Cantonese. These include both sentence-final particles and sentence-initial particles that can be used in isolation as interjections. Based on previous syntacti...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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2020-12-01
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| Series: | Studies in Chinese Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.2478/scl-2020-0004 |