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Title: | Syntactic properties of sin(先)in Cantonese interrogatives | Other Title: | 粤语疑问句末“先”字的句法特点 | Authors: | Tang, SW | Issue Date: | 2006 | Source: | 中国语文 (Studies of the Chinese language), 2006, no. 3, p. 225-232, 287-288 | Abstract: | 本文从句法学的角度探讨粤语疑问句末加强语气的"先"的语法特点,并且提出证据支持句末助词的分析。加强语气的"先"只出现在疑问句的母句里。句法上属于第二类句末助词,跟表示先后的副词"先"并不一样。 This paperdiscussesvariousgrammaticalpropertiesof theparticlesininCantonese interrogatives through a syntactic approach and proposes that sin is a sentence-final particle conveying mood.It is argued that this particle is a type Ⅱ sentence-final particle,occurring in the matrix clause of interrogatives,whose distribution is very different from the adverb sin(先)‘first’ that is related to time and order,although they are apparently homonyms. |
Keywords: | Sin Sentence-final particle Interrogative Adverb Syntax Cantonese |
Publisher: | 人民教育出版社 | Journal: | 中国语文 (Studies of the Chinese language) | ISSN: | 0578-1949 | Rights: | © 2006 China Academic Journal Electronic Publishing House. It is to be used strictly for educational and research use. © 2006 中国学术期刊电子杂志出版社。本内容的使用仅限于教育、科研之目的。 |
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