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
List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 The study of Cantonese: an overview
Chapter 2 Systemic Functional Linguistics: an introductory note
Chapter 3 Phonology and morphology in Cantonese
Chapter 4 Below the clause: word classes
Chapter 5 Below the clause: group and phrase
Chapter 6 Clause as representation: Construing experience I
Chapter 7 Clause as representation: construing experience II
Chapter 8 Clause as representation: construing circumstantial profiles
Chapter 9 Clause as exchange: enacting relationship
Chapter 10 Clause as exchange: expressing personal assessment
Chapter 11 Clause as message: enabling discourse
Chapter 12 Clause as message: regulating information flow
Chapter 13 Above the clause: clausal relationship
Chapter 14 Around the clause: textual connexity
Chapter 15 Discourse semantics: registerial analyses
Chapter 16 Discourse semantics: appraisal analyses
Chapter 17 Discourse semantics: thematic organization analyses
References
Appendices
Notations
Index
