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In:Directional Particles in Cantonese: Form, function, and grammaticalization
Winnie Chor
[Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse 9] 2018
► pp. 1–34

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Chapter 1
Introduction and theoretical preliminaries

Published online: 24 May 2018
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https://doi.org/10.1075/scld.9.c1
Article outline
  • 1.1Preamble
    • 1.1.1 Typology of Cantonese
    • 1.1.2Studies on Cantonese particles
  • 1.2Research on grammaticalization in China and the West
    • 1.2.1A brief history of grammaticalization
    • 1.2.2Typical features associated with grammaticalization
    • 1.2.3Grammaticalization studies on Western European languages
    • 1.2.4The unidirectionality principle
    • 1.2.5Grammaticalization studies in Chinese
  • 1.3Data and approach
    • 1.3.1Early Cantonese materials
    • 1.3.2Cantonese films
    • 1.3.3The HKCanCor corpus
    • 1.3.4Cantonese dictionaries
  • 1.4Goals of the present study
  • 1.5Outline of chapters
  • Notes
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