Studies in Cantonese Linguistics
edited by Stephen Matthews
published by the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong
Contents:
- Hong Kong Cantonese Tone Contours (Robert S.Bauer)
- On the ‘inverted’ double object construction (Sze-Wing Tang)
- Postverbal KEOI as a marker for nonasserted bounded clauses (Patricia
Man)
- Possessive constructions, classifiers and specificity in Cantonese
(Patrizia Pacioni)
- Auxiliary Verbs in Cantonese (Owen Nancarrow & K.K. Luke)
- The Expression of Futurity in English and Cantonese Verbs (K.K. Luke
& Owen Nancarrow
- First auxiliaries and modality in child Cantonese (Colleen Wong)
- Expanding the scope of the utterance-final position: postposed modals
in Cantonese and Mandarin (Dana Bourgerie)
This book is available from the editor (matthews@hkucc.hku.hk)
and by mail from the LSHK at GPO Box 9772, Hong Kong.