Directional Particles in Cantonese: Form, function, and grammaticalization
Winnie Chor
[Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse, 9] 2018. xvii, 239 pp.
Winnie Chor
List of John Benjamins publications for which Winnie Chor plays a role.
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Subjects Historical linguistics | Sino-Tibetan languages | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2016 Chinese interrogative particles as talk coordinators at the right periphery: A discourse–pragmatic perspective Periphery – Diachronic and Cross-Linguistic Approaches, Higashiizumi, Yuko, Noriko O. Onodera and Sung-Ock S. Sohn (eds.), pp. 178–207 | Article
This paper examines how utterance-final interrogative particles in Chinese contribute to the management of local and global coherence in conversational discourse. Using Schiffrin’s (1987) model of discourse coherence, and focusing in particular on the Cantonese particle ho2 we show how an… read more
2014 Epistemic, evidential and attitudinal markers in clause-medial position in Cantonese Modes of Modality: Modality, typology, and universal grammar, Leiss, Elisabeth and Werner Abraham (eds.), pp. 219–260 | Article
This paper examines two types of clause-medial stance markers in Cantonese.* We trace the evolution of these stance markers from their lexical origins as complement-taking psych verbs and directional verbs. Similar to English I think parentheticals, the evolution of the Cantonese psych verbs (e.g.… read more