This thesis attempts to motivate a syntactic analysis of final particles in Chinese. The
proposal conforms essentially to the recent hypotheses on the split CP system. It suggests …

This paper explores the possibilities of dissecting the particles that we find in sentence final
position in Cantonese into sub-syllabic semantic units. After characterizing the 40-odd most …

This article re-examines the controversial shì… de construction, which is shown to involve
different types of structures, with different syntactic properties. The core of the analysis …

Standard Cantonese has a particularly rich inventory of final particles. Final particles are
bound morphemes situated at clause or sentence final position. They are traditionally …

This paper proposes two syntactic positions for the wide range of Cantonese sentence-final
particles that occur in the CP domain. The first position that I argue for is identified with the …

English-speaking children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) are less capable of using
prosodic cues such as intonation for irony comprehension. Prosodic cues, in particular …

ABSTRACT Sao in Modern Vietnamese is primarily interpreted as either 'how'or 'why'. We
argue it is first and foremost a what-element. Sao's omnipresence in adverbial formatives is …

It is argued that the “true empty category” in Mandarin NP ellipsis is not necessarily a
semantically empty structure-less position; instead it could have a complex structure …

沈家煊 (2007) 讨论了六种所谓" 形义错配句", 提出了" 类推糅合" 的分析方法. 在这篇文章里,
我们通过普通话和粤语的比较, 论证那些" 形义错配句" 都应该由动名词名物化所产生, 跟" 类推 …

This study investigates the semantic and phonological processing of Cantonese sentence-
final particles (SFPs) in the mind. Experiment 1 showed that the reaction times (RTs) of …