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Basic Cantonese : a grammar and workbook

✍ Scribed by Virginia Yip; Stephen Matthews

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2000
Tongue
English
Leaves
184
Category
Library
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✦ Table of Contents


Content: 1. Consonants --
2. Vowels and diphthongs --
3. Tone --
4. Pronouns --
5. Possession : ge --
6. Possession and existence : yáuh --
7. Being : haih --
8. Noun classifiers --
9. Adjectives --
10. Adverbs of manner --
11. Adverbs of time, frequency and duration --
12. Comparison : gwo and diΜ„ --
13. Prepositions : space and time --
14. Negation --
15. Verbs of motion : heui and laΜ€ih --
16. Verbs of giving : béi --
17. Verbs and particles --
18. Actions and events : jó and gwo --
19. Activities : gán 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.

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