This paper discusses the syntactic and semantic properties of the two functions of the post-verbal can1 in Cantonese. The first function of the post-verbal can1 is a non-specific resultative particle that denotes any degree on a “bodily harm” scale. The non-specific nature of can1 ensures that the scale is always a simplex scale (containing only a beginning and an end) and thus [V-can1] predicates behave like achievement verbs. The second function of the post-verbal can1 is a free choice item (FCI). It appears only in non-episodic sentences, specifically in dou1 (iota operator)-conditionals or zau6 (necessity operator)-conditionals
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The morpheme dāk 得 has a broad range of functions in modern Cantonese, including being used as a pa...
This paper first demonstrates that Cantonese as a language does not have an exceptional order of non...
Session - Syntax: East Asian LinguisticsSeveral studies highlight the significance of grammatical va...
This paper investigates a subtype of resultative predicate marked by the verbal particle-can in Cant...
This paper studies the Cantonese sentence final particle 'tim1 'and more generally the semantics of ...
This paper proposes that locative inversion is a widespread syntactic process in Cantonese. The sent...
This paper explores the conditions where Mandarin RVCs can be preserved in their Cantonese counterpa...
This thesis focuses on a special type of construction in Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese long disc...
Speakers have various linguistic resources at their disposal to express their stance, e.g. their fee...
xiii, 249 leavesThis dissertation studies the notion of transitivity in Cantonese. Conventionally, t...
This paper explores the grammaticalization of the verbal particle maai in Cantonese. Originally a ve...
This paper investigates the phenomenon of split intransitivity in Cantonese utilizing two approaches...
This paper attempts to establish a general methodology for interpreting Chinese final particles. Thi...
This study deals with a syntactic analysis of the V-one-V construction that has implications on the ...
Verb-doubling, where a copy of the main verb occurs both before and after the direct object, is a st...
The morpheme dāk 得 has a broad range of functions in modern Cantonese, including being used as a pa...
This paper first demonstrates that Cantonese as a language does not have an exceptional order of non...
Session - Syntax: East Asian LinguisticsSeveral studies highlight the significance of grammatical va...