Full Description
A Systemic Functional Grammar of Cantonese adopts Systemic Functional Linguistics to describe the grammar of Cantonese, and to push the description beyond the clausal level to the discourse level.
The book provides a comprehensive description of the Cantonese language, starting from the social and historical background, and the sound and word structure of Cantonese, including word, group, and phrase, to the grammar of clause and sentence. It then advances into the discourse of Cantonese, examining the compound and complex sentences, as well as the flow of information in Cantonese discourse and the elements which regulate the flow.
This volume will be informative for scholars and students studying the Cantonese language, and will provide a good starting point for those researching the language.
Contents
Preface
1 The study of Cantonese: an overview
2 Systemic Functional Linguistics: an introductory note
3 Phonology and morphology in Cantonese
4 Below the clause: word classes
5 Below the clause: group and phrase
6 Clause as representation: Construing experience I
7 Clause as representation: construing experience II
8 Clause as representation: construing circumstantial profiles
9 Clause as exchange: enacting relationship
10 Clause as exchange: expressing personal assessment
11 Clause as message: enabling discourse
12 Clause as message: regulating information flow
13 Above the clause: clausal relationship
14 Around the clause: textual connexity
