Focus manifestation in Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese : a comparative perspective / Peppina Po-lun Lee.

"One prominent function of natural language is to convey information, and one peculiarity is that it does not do so randomly, but in a structured way, with information structuring formally recognized to be a component of grammar. Among all information structuring notions, focus is one primitive...

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Main Author:	Lee, Peppina Po-lun (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.
Series:	Routledge studies in Chinese linguistics.
Subjects:	Mandarin dialects > Syntax. Cantonese dialects > Syntax.