Directional Particles in Cantonese: Form, function, and grammaticalization
Winnie Chor
This book is the first on Cantonese that deals with the grammaticalization phenomenon systematically. Focusing on a group of twelve directional particles, this book tracks their grammaticalization pathways from full-fledged directional verbs, to directional particles indicating meanings relating to… read more[Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse, 9] 2018. xvii, 239 pp.