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 Cantonese: A Comprehensive Grammar (1994, 2nd edition 2011), The Bilingual Child: Early Development and Language Contact (2007, Cambridge University Press), and co-directors of the Childhood Bilingualism Research Centre.
Introduction
1 Consonants
2 Vowels and diphthongs
3 Tone
4 Pronouns
5 Possession: ge
6 Possession and existence: yáuh
7 Being: haih
8 Noun classifiers
9 Adjectives
10 Adverbs of manner
11 Adverbs of time, frequency and duration
12 Comparison: gwo and di
13 Prepositions: space and time
14 Negation
15 Verbs of motion: heui and làih
16 Verbs of giving: béi
17 Verbs and particles
18 Actions and events: jó and gwo
19 Activities: gán and jyuh
20 Auxiliary verbs
21 Passives
22 Word order and topicalization
23 Yes/no questions
24 Wh-questions
25 Sentence particles
26 Imperatives
27 Requests and thanks
28 Numbers, dates and times
Key to exercises
Glossary of grammatical terms
