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INTERMEDIATE CANTONESE The second edition of Intermediate Cantonese is designed for learners who have achieved basic profi ciency and wish to progress to more complex language. Each of the 25 units combines clear, concise grammar explanations with communicatively oriented exercises to help build confi dence and fl uency. Features include: • many authentic examples from contemporary media, including fi lms, advertising, songs and soap operas • clear differentiation between colloquial and more formal speech registers • up-to-date analysis of contemporary Cantonese as spoken in Hong Kong. Suitable for independent learners and students on taught courses, Intermediate Cantonese, together with its sister volume, Basic Cantonese, forms a structured course of the essentials of Cantonese grammar. Virginia Yip is Professor at the Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is Co-Director of the University of Cambridge-CUHK Joint Laboratory for Bilingualism and Director of the CUHK-Peking University-University System of Taiwan Joint Research Centre for Language and Human Complexity. Stephen Matthews is Professor at the Department of Linguistics at the University of Hong Kong. They are the authors of Basic Cantonese: A Grammar and Workbook (2000), Cantonese: A Comprehensive Grammar (1994, 2nd edition 2011), The Bilingual Child: Early Development and Language Contact (Cambridge University Press, 2007), and co-directors of the Childhood Bilingualism Research Centre. Titles of related interest published by Routledge Basic Cantonese A Grammar and Workbook By Virginia Yip and Stephen Matthews Cantonese A Comprehensive Grammar By Stephen Matthews and Virginia Yip Colloquial Cantonese A Complete Language Course By Keith S. T. Tong and Gregory James Basic Chinese A Grammar and Workbook By Yip Po-Ching and Don Rimmington Intermediate Chinese A Grammar and Workbook By Yip Po-Ching and Don Rimmington Chinese An Essential Grammar By Yip Po-Ching and Don Rimmington Colloquial Chinese A Complete Language Course By Kan Qian Colloquial Chinese CD-ROM By Kan Qian Colloquial Chinese (Reprint of the fi rst edition) By Ping-Cheng T’ung and David E. Pollard INTERMEDIATE CANTONESE: A GRAMMAR AND WORKBOOK Second Edition Virginia Yip and Stephen Matthews Second edition published 2017 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2017 Virginia Yip and Stephen Matthews The right of Virginia Yip and Stephen Matthews to be identifi ed as authors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identifi cation and explanation without intent to infringe. First edition published by Routledge 2001 British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Yip, Virginia, 1962– author. | Matthews, Stephen, 1963– author. Title: Intermediate Cantonese : a grammar and workbook / Virginia Yip and Stephen Matthews. Description: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, [2017] | Series: Grammar workbooks | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifi ers: LCCN 2016038441 | ISBN 9780415815604 (hardback) | ISBN 9780415815611 (pbk.) | ISBN 9781315265223 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Cantonese dialects—Grammar. Classifi cation: LCC PL1733 .Y565 2017 | DDC 495.17/95127—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016038441 ISBN: 978-0-415-81560-4 (hbk) ISBN: 978-0-415-81561-1 (pbk) ISBN: 978-131-526-522-3 (ebk) Typeset in Times Ten by Apex CoVantage, LLC For Alicia Tīn Wihng in celebration of a new millennium – Chīn Hēi Lìhn 千禧年 CONTENTS Acknowledgements ix Introduction x 1 Consonants and vowels 1 2 Tone contours 7 3 Changed tones 12 4 Reduplication 20 5 Word formation 29 6 Verb-object compounds 35 7 Adjectives and stative verbs 41 8 Classifi ers revisited 46 9 Topic and focus 54 10 Using jēung 將 60 11 Serial verbs 65 12 Aspect markers 72 13 Comparisons 81 14 Resultative and causative sentences with dou 到 87 15 Quantifi cation 94 16 Negative sentences 104 17 Questions and answers 110 18 Relative clauses 117 19 Subordinate clauses 124 20 Conditional sentences 131 21 Reported speech 139 22 Cantonese speech conventions 146 23 Particles and interjections 153 vii Contents 24 Colloquial syntax 161 25 Code-mixing and loanwords 169 Key to exercises 176 Glossary of grammatical terms 195 Index 197 viii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Since the publication of Basic Cantonese and Intermediate Cantonese, we have been pleased to hear from readers from around the world. We thank them for their heart-warming feedback and appreciation. Foremost among their sug- gestions has been the inclusion of Chinese characters, which we are happy to supply in this revised edition. We hope that our books on Cantonese gram- mar and its acquisition by bilingual children will contribute to wider efforts in promoting the language and its culture and providing tools for learners and teachers of Cantonese. Thanks are also due to our dear friends and colleagues who have supported us over the years, and to numerous Cantonese speakers who, whether under duress or inadvertently, have supplied us with lively and colourful examples. Special mention must be made of our captive informants in the Yip family: Peggy, Patrick and Linda, Dan and Kennis. Pride of place goes to our three chil- dren, Timothy, Sophie and Alicia, whose Cantonese advanced from ‘basic’ level to beyond the modest level of this book during the writing of the fi rst edition. For valuable input to the fi rst edition of this book as well as to Basic Can- tonese, we thank Umberto Ansaldo, whose suggestions as a linguist and learner of Cantonese led to numerous improvements. The discussion of tongue twisters and Japanese loanwords with Cream Lee and Shin Kataoka was also a timely gift. For work on the second edition, we thank our assistants Szeto Pui Yiu and Cindy Cheung Shu Ting for their careful editing and constructive suggestions. We thank the reviewers and the Routledge editorial team who have seen the project through. We naturally take responsibility for any errors which remain. Finally, we take the opportunity to pay tribute to the many scholars who have contributed to uncovering the richness of Cantonese grammar. Among these, we feel particularly indebted to Thomas O’Melia, Y.R. Chao, Samuel Cheung Hung-Nin and Anne Yue. ix
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