Chapter 1
Introduction and theoretical preliminaries
Article outline
- 1.1Preamble
- 1.1.1
Typology of Cantonese
- 1.1.2Studies on Cantonese particles
- 1.2Research on grammaticalization in China and the West
- 1.2.1A brief history of grammaticalization
- 1.2.2Typical features associated with grammaticalization
- 1.2.3Grammaticalization studies on Western European languages
- 1.2.4The unidirectionality principle
- 1.2.5Grammaticalization studies in Chinese
- 1.3Data and approach
- 1.3.1Early Cantonese materials
- 1.3.2Cantonese films
- 1.3.3The HKCanCor corpus
- 1.3.4Cantonese dictionaries
- 1.4Goals of the present study
- 1.5Outline of chapters
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