Concluding Remarks

Peppina Po-Lun Lee

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Concluding Remarks

Peppina Po-Lun Lee^*

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In this book, adopting a syntax-semantics mapping approach, I have studied affixal quantification with special reference to three Cantonese affixal quantifiers -hoi ‘open’, -saai ‘all’ and -maai ‘add’. What is peculiar about these verbal suffixes is that they are morphologically attached to verbs but are semantically possible to interpret with all verbal arguments. Hence, these suffixes are essentially quantificational, since it is from the suffix that the quantificational meaning of the sentence in question is derived. Therefore, I have instead argued that -hoi, -saai and -maai are quantifiers, performing generic, universal and additive quantification, respectively.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Cantonese Particles and Affixal Quantification
Place of Publication	Dordrecht
Publisher	Springer
Pages	233-242
ISBN (Electronic)	978-94-007-4387-8
ISBN (Print)	978-94-007-9511-2, 978-94-007-4386-1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4387-8_7
Publication status	Published - 2012

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Name	Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
Volume	87
ISSN (Print)	0924-4670
ISSN (Electronic)	2215-0358

Research Keywords

Lexical Meaning
Lexical Semantic
Mapping Process
Selectional Restriction
Semantic Factor

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