Basic Cantonese: A Grammar and Workbook (Grammar Workbooks)

✍ Scribed by Virginia Yip, Stephen Matthews

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 184
• Series: Grammar Workbooks
• Edition: Bilingual
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

I actually own the hard copy but wanted the ebook version for my ipad library for convenience. I wasn't too happy when I noticed that all of the text (though the pictures have it) did not include tone marks for the first (high pitch) tone...rendering the book useless to any learner. To the editor: Please fix and resend or give us back our money!

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Introduction......Page 10
1 Consonants......Page 14
2 Vowels and diphthongs......Page 20
3 Tone......Page 24
4 Pronouns......Page 30
5 Possession ge......Page 36
6 Possession and existence yáuh......Page 40
7 Being haih......Page 45
8 Noun classifiers......Page 49
9 Adjectives......Page 55
10 Adverbs of manner......Page 60
11 Adverbs of time frequency and duration......Page 65
12 Comparison gwo and d......Page 71
13 Prepositions space and time......Page 78
14 Negation......Page 85
15 Verbs of motion heui and làih......Page 91
16 Verbs of giving béi......Page 96
17 Verbs and particles......Page 101
Actions and events: j and gwo......Page 106
Activities: gn and jyuh......Page 112
Auxiliary verbs......Page 117
Passives......Page 123
Word order and topicalization......Page 128
Yes/no questions......Page 133
Wh-questions......Page 138
Sentence particles......Page 143
Imperatives......Page 148
Requests and thanks......Page 153
Numbers, dates and times......Page 158
Key to exercises......Page 164
Glossary of grammatical terms......Page 180
Introduction......Page 0

✦ Subjects

Языки и языкознание;Китайский язык;Диалекты китайского языка;Кантонский диалект;