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Record Nr.

UNINA9910164936903321

Autore

Yip Virginia <1962-, >

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2017

ISBN

0-415-81561-4

1-315-26522-2

1-351-96652-9

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (212 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 and vowels -- 2. Tone contours -- 3. Changed tones -- 4. Reduplication -- 5. Word formation -- 6. Verb-object compounds -- 7. Adjectives and stative verbs -- 8. Classifiers revisited -- 9. Topic and focus -- 10. Using jeung -- 11. Serial verbs -- 12. Aspect markers -- 13. Comparisons -- 14. Resultative and causative sentences with dou -- 15. Quantification -- 16. Negative sentences -- 17. Questions and answers -- 18. Relative clauses -- 19. Subordinate clauses -- 20. Conditional sentences -- 21. Reported speech -- 22. Cantonese speech conventions -- 23. Particles and interjections -- 24. Colloquial syntax -- 25. Code-mixing and loanwords.