Cherry Chit-yu Lam
List of John Benjamins publications in which Cherry Chit-yu Lam is involved.
Article
2023 Rethinking postverbal ‘acquire’ and related constructions in Cantonese: Polyfunctionality and parameters Language and Linguistics 24:4, pp. 674–732 | Article
This paper revisits a well-established areal phenomenon in Mainland Southeast Asia and Northern Europe involving an element, ACQ(UIRE), that functions as a lexical verb meaning ‘to get or acquire’ and appears, as a functional item, in numerous seemingly unrelated constructions such as modal… read more