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Author : Siew-Yue Killingley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Cantonese dialects
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039610865
Author : Shek Tse,Hui Li
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110240092
This book is the first publication on record that systematically and comprehensively addresses the acquisition and development of Cantonese in early childhood. It draws upon evidence from up-to-date reviews of associated literature, on the outcomes of numerous research studies conducted by the authors and on the outcomes of an in-depth study of the largest corpus of early childhood Cantonese. To supplement and illuminate published trends in the literature, carefully gathered reliable and valid empirical data are critically scrutinized. The evidence is used to clarify and examine theoretical assumptions and to outline putative developmental trends in early childhood Cantonese pragmatics.
Author : Siew-Yue Killingley
Publisher : Gg
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Cantonese dialects
ISBN : 0950791806
Author : Kasumi Yamamoto
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110914955
The book is about the numeral classifier system and the acquisition of Japanese classifiers by Japanese children. It consists of two parts. First, it provides a general typological characterization of numeral classifier phrases and discusses problems in determining what constitutes the nature of classifiers. It also discusses the semantic properties of numeral classifiers based on an analysis of four languages from four different language families. Second, it examines the acquisitions of Japanese numeral classifiers by Japanese preschool children, ages 3 to 6, with a primary emphasis on the development of comprehension. The importance of the study is that it reveals that young children have a much greater sensitivity to the conceptual underpinnings of the numeral classifier system than was previously considered to be the case. The research results also provide a converging source of evidence that young children often come to initially grasp the structure of the world in ways that are better understood in cognitive than perceptual terms. The implications will contribute to not only the area of language acquisition but also categorization and conceptual development.
Author : Chungmin Lee,Young-Wha Kim,Byeong-Uk Yi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351679602
Focusing mainly on classifiers, Numeral Classifiers and Classifier Languages offers a deep investigation of three major classifier languages: Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. This book provides detailed discussions well supported by empirical evidence and corpus analyses. Theoretical hypotheses regarding differences and commonalities between numeral classifier languages and other mainly article languages are tested to seek universals or typological characteristics. The essays collected here from leading scholars in different fields promise to be greatly significant in the field of linguistics for several reasons. First, it targets three representative classifier languages in Asia. It also provides critical clues and suggests solutions to syntactic, semantic, psychological, and philosophical issues about classifier constructions. Finally, it addresses ensuing debates that may arise in the field of linguistics in general and neighboring inter-disciplinary areas. This book should be of great interest to advanced students and scholars of East Asian languages.
Author : Anita Mei-Yin Wong
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-30
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781000785401
Understanding Development and Disorder in Cantonese using Language Sample Analysis brings together 20 years of research on typical development and Development Language Disorder (DLD) in Cantonese. This book begins with a succinct overview of Cantonese, which is a popular variety of Chinese, a Sino-Tibetan language. The second chapter describes a new framework of the Grammatical Analysis of Cantonese Samples (GACS), which is developed on the basis of functionalist and usage-based theories of language and language development. The third chapter reports on a quantitative analysis, as well as a qualitative description of the development of Cantonese in preschool children using the GACS framework. The book ends with a chapter that presents the linguistic profile of a Cantonese-speaking child with DLD. It also illustrates how to make decisions on intervention targets on the basis of the grammatical and error analysis. The book provides a timely and important addition to the typological diversity of studies in both child language development and disorder. This book is informative for students and practitioners of speech and language therapy, students in early childhood education and Chinese linguistics and researchers in child language development and disorders.
Author : Virginia Yip,Stephen Matthews
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781134650552
Intermediate Cantonese is designed for learners who have achieved basic proficiency and wish to progress to more complex language. Each of the 25 units combines clear, concise grammar explanations with communicatively-oriented exercises to help build confidence and fluency. * Suitable for independent learners and students on taught courses * Many authentic examples from contemporary media, including films, advertising, songs and soap operas * Clear distinction between colloquial and more formal speech registers * Teaches contemporary Cantonese as spoken in Hong Kong Intermediate Cantonese and its sister volume, Basic Cantonese, form a structured course of the essentials of Cantonese grammar.
Author : Stephen Matthews,Virginia Yip
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-24
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781136853500
Cantonese: A Comprehensive Grammar is a complete reference guide to Cantonese as spoken by native speakers in Hong Kong. It presents a fresh and accessible description of the language, concentrating on the real patterns of use in current Cantonese. This makes it the ideal reference source for all learners and users of Cantonese, irrespective of level, in schools, colleges, universities and adult classes of all types. Moreover, it will provide a lasting and reliable resource for all fluent speakers of the language. The book is organized to promote a thorough understanding of Cantonese grammar. Arranged by both syntactic categories and language functions, the Grammar provides an in-depth treatment of structures and pays special attention to idiom and speech registers. Explanations are full, clear and free of jargon. An extensive index, numbered paragraphs and generous use of headings and cross-references provide readers with easy access to the information they require. Features include: Comprehensive pronunciation section Full use of examples from films, advertising and authentic conversations Cantonese-English parallels highlighted throughout the book All examples given in characters as well as pinyin
Author : Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2000-03-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191543982
Almost all languages have some ways of categorizing nouns. Languages of South-East Asia have classifiers used with numerals, while most Indo-European languages have two or three genders. They can have a similar meaning and one can develop from the other. This book provides a comprehensive and original analysis of noun categorization devices all over the world. It will interest typologists, those working in the fields of morphosyntactic variation and lexical semantics, as well as anthropologists and all other scholars interested in the mechanisms of human cognition.
Author : Anastasia Giannakidou,Monika Rathert
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191562013
This book addresses recent developments in the study of quantifier phrases, nominalizations, and the linking definite determiner. It reflects the intense reconsideration of the nature of quantification, and of fundamental aspects of the syntax and semantics of quantifier phrases. Leading international scholars explore novel and challenging ideas at the interfaces between syntax and morphology, syntax and semantics, morphology and the lexicon. They examine core issues in the field, such as kind reference, number marking, partitivity, context dependence and the way presuppositions are built into the meanings of quantifiers. They also consider how in this context definiteness and the definite determiner D play a central role, and the way in which D is also instrumental in nominalizations. With nominalization, the lexical semantic contribution of verbs and their arguments becomes central, and within the perspective of this book the question is asked whether syntactic nominalizations share with noun phrases the same external layer, namely the functional projection DP. If so, what exactly is the contribution of D in this case, and how much of the lexical correspondence between nouns and verbs is preserved? This book presents the latest thinking on cross-paradigm and cross-linguistic approaches in three of the most vibrant and productive research areas in linguistics. It paves the way towards a more comprehensive understanding of how quantification, definiteness, and nominalizations are encoded in the grammar.
Author : XuPing Li
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110289336
This book studies the syntax and semantics of numeral classifiers in Mandarin and other Chinese languages. It explores how Chinese classifiers are semantically interpreted in syntactic contexts and how semantic functions of classifiers are realized at the syntactic level. The book is a contribution to formal Chinese linguistics, and to the understanding of grammatical properties of nominal phrases in Chinese and East Asian languages.
Author : Denis Paperno,Edward L. Keenan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 1010 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783319443300
This work presents the structure, distribution and semantic interpretation of quantificational expressions in languages from diverse language families and typological profiles. The current volume pays special attention to underrepresented languages of different status and endangerment level. Languages covered include American and Russian Sign Languages, and sixteen spoken languages from Africa, Australia, Papua, the Americas, and different parts of Asia. The articles respond to a questionnaire the editors constructed to enable detailed crosslinguistic comparison of numerous features. They offer comparable information on semantic classes of quantifiers (generalized existential, generalized universal, proportional, partitive), syntactically complex quantifiers (intensive modification, Boolean compounds, exception phrases, etc.), and several more specific issues such as quantifier scope ambiguities, floating quantifiers, and binary (type 2) quantifiers. The book is intended for semanticists, logicians interested in quantification in natural language, and general linguists as articles are meant to be descriptive and theory independent. The book continues and expands the coverage of the Handbook of Quantifiers in Natural Language (2012) by the same editors, and extends the earlier work in Matthewson (2008), Gil et al. (2013) and Bach et al (1995).
Author : Zhuo Jing-Schmidt
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027271419
Increased Empiricism: Recent advances in Chinese Linguistics showcases recent trends in the co-development of theory and empiricism in Chinese linguistics. The volume tackles a wide range of theoretical and empirical problems in multiple subfields including sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, lexical semantics, pragmatics, phonetics and phonology, corpus linguistics, and Chinese second language acquisition. The contributions do not fall neatly into two sections traditionally labeled “theoretical” and “empirical”. Rather, theoretical discussions are buttressed by empirical evidence, and empirical analyses lead to theoretical generalizations. Furthermore, the volume transcends the functional-formal division, showing that empiricism not only empowers functional-typological and sociolinguistic research, but can also have a place in formally oriented linguistic analysis.
Author : Frank Joseph Shulman,Anna See Ping Leon Shulman
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 878 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9622093973
A descriptively annotated, multidisciplinary, cross-referenced and extensively indexed guide to 2,395 dissertations that are concerned either in whole or in part with Hong Kong and with Hong Kong Chinese students and emigres throughout the world.
Author : 邓思颖
Publisher : BEIJING BOOK CO. INC.
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
本书主要的内容包括：普通话“的”的句法分析，主要讨论中心语、名物化等问题；方言研究，所讨论的方言包括北方话的烟台话、闽语、粤语、客语、吴语的上海话、常州话等；跨语言比较，采用古汉语和凉山彝语作比较研究，探索名物化的性质。书中讨论的相关问题具有学术前沿性，对汉语助词的研究有重要参考价值。
