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Record Nr.

UNINA9910163926303321

Autore

Yip Virginia <1962-, >

Titolo

Basic Cantonese : a grammar and workbook / / Virginia Yip and Stephen Matthews

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2017

ISBN

1-315-27767-0

1-315-27769-7

1-315-27768-9

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (190 pages) : illustrations, tables

Collana

Grammar Workbooks

Altri autori (Persone)

MatthewsStephen <1963->

Disciplina

495.1795127

Soggetti

Cantonese dialects - Grammar

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Consonants -- 2. Vowels and diphthongs -- 3. Tone -- 4. Pronouns -- 5. Possession : ge -- 6. Possession and existence : yáuh -- 7. Being : haih -- 8. Noun classifiers -- 9. Adjectives -- 10. Adverbs of manner -- 11. Adverbs of time, frequency and duration -- 12. Comparison: gwo 過 and dī 啲 -- 13. Prepositions : space and time -- 14. Negation -- 15. Verbs of motion : heui and làih -- 16. Verbs of giving :  béi -- 17. Verbs and particles -- 18. Actions and events :  jó and gwo -- 19. Activities : gán and jyuh -- 20. Auxiliary verbs -- 21. Passives -- 22. Word order and topicalization -- 23. Yes/no questions -- 24. Wh-questions -- 25. Sentence particles -- 26. Imperatives -- 27. Requests and thanks -- 28. Numbers, dates and times.