Abstract
This article compares the resumptive and expletive views on an understudied use of the Cantonese pronoun keoi5. We demonstrate that the resumptive view as recently proposed in Yip and Ahenkorah (2022) raises a number of complications, and the so-called dummy keoi5 is better analyzed as a non-subject expletive, in line with traditional descriptions in Matthews and Yip (1994/2011). © 2024 by the Journal of Chinese Linguistics.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 727-742 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| Journal | Journal of Chinese Linguistics |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| Online published | 18 Jul 2024 |
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| Publication status | Published - Sept 2024 |
Research Keywords
- Copy deletion
- Expletive
- Resumptive pronoun
- Cantonese
- 拷贝删除
- 虚位成分
- 接应代词
- 粤语