Virginia Yip, Stephen Matthews

Intermediate Cantonese (eBook, ePUB)

A Grammar and Workbook

• Format: ePub

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

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351966528
• Artikelnr.: 47956281

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, 2^nd 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