Virginia Yip (The Chinese University of Hong Kong.), Stephen Matthews (The University of Hong Kong.)

Intermediate Cantonese

A Grammar and Workbook

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Intermediate Cantonese is designed for learners who have achieved basic proficiency and wish to progress to more complex language.

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Produktdetails

• Routledge Grammar Workbooks
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: Y145942
• 2. Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 335g
• ISBN-13: 9780415815611
• ISBN-10: 0415815614
• Artikelnr.: 46907334

Autorenporträt

Virginia Yip is Professor at the Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Stephen Matthews is Professor at the Department of Linguistics at the University of Hong Kong. They are the authors of Basic Cantonese: A Grammar and Workbook (2000), Cantonese: A Comprehensive Grammar (1994, 2nd edition 2011), The Bilingual Child: Early Development and Language Contact (Cambridge University Press, 2007), and co-directors of the Childhood Bilingualism Research Centre.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements

Introduction

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 j ung

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

Key to exercises

Glossary of grammatical terms

Index