On gerundive nominalization in Mandarin and Cantonese

Tang, Sze-Wing

doi:10.1075/tsl.96.05tan

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Nominalization in Asian Languages: Diachronic and typological perspectives
Edited by Foong Ha Yap, Karen Grunow-Hårsta and Janick Wrona
[Typological Studies in Language 96] 2011
► pp. 147–160

On gerundive nominalization in Mandarin and Cantonese

Sze-Wing Tang | The Chinese University of Hong Kong

This paper examines a number of variations between Mandarin and Cantonese nominalizations, including genitive agent nominals, possessive objects, relativization of idiomatic expressions, verbless de expressions, and internal de expressions. Differences between these two languages boil down to the availability of some gerundive nominalization in these two dialects.

Published online: 29 June 2011

https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.96.05tan

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Tang, Sze‐Wing & Siu‐Pong Cheng

2014. Aspects of Cantonese Grammar. In The Handbook of Chinese Linguistics, ► pp. 599 ff.

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