Focus Manifestation in Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese

Name: Focus Manifestation in Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Focus Manifestation in Mandarin Chinese and CantoneseA Comparative Perspective\nAuthor(s): Peppina Po-lun Lee\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138568112, 978-1138568112\nSynopsis\nOne prominent function of natural language is to convey information. 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 needed to account for all phenomena. \n\nFocus Manifestation in Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese: A Comparative Perspective aims to examine from a semantic perspective how syntactic structures and focus adverbs in Mandarin Chinese and semantic particles in Cantonese conspire to encode focus structures and determine focus manifestation in Chinese. With both being tonal languages, Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese manifest different morpho-syntactic configur.