The Routledge Handbook of Cantonese Linguistics

Preface: Why A Handbook of Cantonese Linguistics? Andy CHIN, Shin KATAOKA, Bit-chee KWOK Part I: Historical studies of Cantonese 1. The Origin of Yue dialect as a direct descendent of the Song official language Chunfat LAU 2. Kam-Tai Substratum in Cantonese Jinfang LI 3. The Mainland Southeast Asian linguistic area, with special reference to Cantonese Pui Yiu SZETO 4. From Middle Chinese to Present-day Cantonese Ling ZHANG 5. An Overview of Early Cantonese Materials: History, Research, and Resources Cream Yin-ping LEE & Shin KATAOKA Part II: Grammar and Discourse 6. Morphology in Cantonese Giorgio Francesco ARCODIA 7. The Cantonese noun phrase Lisa Lai-Shen CHENG & Rint SYBESMA 8. Diminutives in Cantonese Bit-chee KWOK & Dazhen WU 9. Serial verb constructions in Cantonese Pun Ho LUI & Stephen MATTHEWS 10. Separable verbs in Cantonese Tommy Tsz-Ming LEE & Ka-Fai YIP 11. Aspects in Cantonese Siu-pong CHENG 12. Verbal suffixes in Cantonese Peppina Po-lun LEE 13. Directional verbs in Cantonese Carine Yuk-man YIU 14. Negations in Cantonese Cherry Chit-Yu LAM 15. GIVE in Cantonese Andy CHIN 16. Comparative Constructions and Equative Constructions Yik-Po LAI 17. On the Syntax of Sentence-final Particles in Cantonese Sze-Wing TANG 18. Dislocation Structures in Cantonese Lawrence Y. L. CHEUNG 19. Conjunctions in Cantonese Kevin Kin-wing CHAN 20. Cantonese Discourse Markers Winnie CHOR 21. Cantonese Conversational Analysis Kang-Kwong LUKE 22. Grammaticalization in Cantonese: A synthesis of research Hilary CHAPPELL 23. Recent Developments in the Study of Early Cantonese Grammar Minako TAKEKOSHI Part III: Phonetics and Phonology 24. Cantonese Phonetics Wai-sum LEE 25. Cantonese Phonology Robert BAUER 26. Ongoing Sound Changes in Cantonese Peggy MOK 27. Cantonese Romanization Systems Kwan Hin CHEUNG 28. Early Cantonese Phonology Masayuki YOSHIKAWA Part IV: Acquisition and Learning of Cantonese 29. Development of universal quantification in Cantonese-speaking children Margaret Ka-yan LEI & Thomas Hun-tak LEE 30. Bilingual Acquisition of Cantonese in Early Childhood Jiangling ZHOU, Virginia YIP & Stephen MATTHEWS 31. Teaching Cantonese as a Second Language for Heritage Speakers Raymond PAI 32. Teaching Cantonese as a second language for non-Chinese speakers Cedric Siu Lun LEE Part V: Language and Society 33. Written Cantonese Don SNOW & Fanny Yuen-mei LI 34. English in Hong Kong: Kongish vis-à-vis Hong Kong English Alfred TSANG 35. Translanguaging and Kongish: Cantonese-English Language Contact in Hong Kong David C. S. LI 36. A note on overt and covert variations between Cantonese and Mandarin core vocabularies Benjamin TSOU 37. Cantonese diasporas: Southeast Asia and beyond Dana Scott BOURGERIE Part VI: Other Yue Dialects 38. The Classification of Yuè Chinese John CARLYLE 39. Macau Cantonese Joaquim Io-Kei KUONG 40. Yue dialects in Western Guangdong Jiaying HUANG & Huayong LIN 41. Pínghuà Hilário DE SOUSA 42. The Cantonese language and other Jyut/Yue varieties in Southeast Asia Hugo Wing Yu TAM Part VII: Cantonese Studies in the Digital Age 43. Promoting Cantonese in and through the Digital World Luis MORGADO DA COSTA, Joanna Ut-Seong SIO, Andy CHIN, Zoe LAM & Raymond PAI 44. Cantonese linguistic corpus and corpus linguistics Sam Tak-sum WONG 45. Crowdsourcing Approaches in Cantonese Language Resource Construction Chaak Ming LAU 46. The Cantonese Wordnet: An Open Lexicographic Database of Cantonese Joanna Ut-Seong SIO & Luis MORGADO DA COSTA

Biography

Andy Chin is Dean and Professor of School of Education and Languages, Hong Kong Metropolitan University.

 Shin Kataoka is a former Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Modern Language Studies, The Education University of Hong Kong.

Bit-Chee Kwok is Professor at the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is the author of Southern Min: Comparative Phonology and Subgrouping (Routledge, 2018).