Basic Cantonese: a grammar and workbook / Virginia Yip and Stephen Matthews.
By: Yip, Virginia
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Contributor(s): Matthews, Stephen.
Series: Grammar workbooks.London, UK ; New York, NY USA ; Routledge, ©2017Edition: Second edition.Description: xiii, 175 pages ; 24 cm.Content type: text. ISBN: 9780415815598 (pbk).Subject(s): Cantonese dialects -- Grammar | Cantonese dialects -- Textbooks for foreign speakers -- English | Cantonese dialects -- Problems, exercises, etcDDC classification: 495.1727/Y59 Other classification: HS
Includes index.
Introduction 1 Consonants 2 Vowels and diphthongs 3 Tone 4 Pronouns 5 Possession: ge 6 Possession and existence: yauh 7 Being: haih 8 Noun classifiers 9 Adjectives 10 Adverbs of manner 11 Adverbs of time, frequency and duration 12 Comparison: gwo and di 13 Prepositions: space and time 14 Negation 15 Verbs of motion: heui and laih 16 Verbs of giving: bei 17 Verbs and particles 18 Actions and events: jo and gwo 19 Activities: gan and jyuh 20 Auxiliary verbs 21 Passives 22 Word order and topicalization 23 Yes/no questions 24 Wh-questions 25 Sentence particles 26 Imperatives 27 Requests and thanks 28 Numbers, dates and times Key to exercises Glossary of grammatical terms
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