The Syntax and Semantics of Cantonese Particles in the Left Periphery

Adopting the cartographic approach, this paper proposes syntactic positions for all left-periphery particles above the tense phrase (TP) in Cantonese. These include both sentence-final particles and sentence-initial particles that can be used in isolation as interjections. Based on previous syntacti...

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Main Author: Wakefield John C.
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Sciendo 2020
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/03f9c7948a9544d5b5d79fc67c443eaa
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