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Publication details [#61322]
Tanaka, Hiroko and Kang Kwong Luke. 2016. Constructing agreements with assessments in Cantonese conversation: From a comparative perspective. Journal of Pragmatics 100 : 25–39.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
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Place, Publisher
Elsevier
Journal WWW
Annotation
Agreements with assessments in Cantonese are compared with Japanese and English. Word order and ellipsis appear major resources in Cantonese to construct strong agreements. Agreements in Cantonese often suppose predicate-only and -initial structures, two syntactic formats focused upon in this study. Agreements in Cantonese exhibit more resemblances with Japanese than with English.