The Syntax and Semantics of Cantonese Particles in the Left Periphery
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/scl-2020-0004" target="_blank" >10.2478/scl-2020-0004</a>
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Syntax and Semantics of Cantonese Particles in the Left Periphery
Original language description
Adopting the cartographic approach, this paper proposes syntactic positions for all left-periphery particles above the tense phrase (TP) in Cantonese. These include both sentence-final particles and sentence-initial particles that can be used in isolation as interjections. Based on previous syntactic proposals for the left periphery, a modification of Rizzi’s (2001) split-complementizer phrase (Split-CP) structure is proposed. A Deictic Phrase (DeicP) is added above the finite phrase (FinP) for the Cantonese “tense” particles laa3 and lei4(ge3). Then, based on a number of proposals inspired by Speas and Tenny (2003), two functional phrases are added above the force phrase (ForceP) – a higher affect phrase (AffectP) for Cantonese sentence-initial particles and a lower discourse phrase (DiscourseP) for most of the sentence-final particles. The resulting structure is tentatively proposed to account for the word order of all left-periphery particles in Cantonese, bringing the description of their syntax closer in line with a number of proposals based on left-periphery particles in other languages. This proposal includes a three-way distinction of the functions and meanings of left-periphery particles: 1) particles that lie between ForceP and TP do not refer directly to the discourse context; 2) particles that head DiscourseP do refer directly to the discourse; and 3) particles that head AffectP refer to the discourse and express human emotions.
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60203 - Linguistics
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Project
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Continuities
O - Projekt operacniho programu
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Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Studies in Chinese Linguistics
ISSN
1017-1274
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Volume of the periodical
41
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
CN - CHINA
Number of pages
30
Pages from-to
109-138
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85100648164