Cherry Chit-yu Lam
Biographic Data
| ID | 9729898 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cherry Chit-yu Lam |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cherry Chit-yu |
| FAMILY NAME | Lam |
| SIGNATURE | LAM C C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hong Kong Shue Yan University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 1 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Rethinking postverbal ‘acquire’ and related constructions in Cantonese
This paper revisits a well-established areal phenomenon in Mainland Southeast Asia and Northern Europe involving an element, ACQ(UIRE), that functions as a lexical verb meaning ‘to get or acquire’ and appears, as a functional item, in numerous seemingly unrelated constructions such as modal constructions, resultatives, descriptive complementation, and focus constructions. This paper presents a generative framework for the postverbal ACQ-structure…
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Rethinking postverbal ‘acquire’ and related constructions in Cantonese
This paper revisits a well-established areal phenomenon in Mainland Southeast Asia and Northern Europe involving an element, ACQ(UIRE), that functions as a lexical verb meaning ‘to get or acquire’ and appears, as a functional item, in numerous seemingly unrelated constructions such as modal constructions, resultatives, descriptive complementation, and focus constructions. This paper presents a generative framework for the postverbal ACQ-structure…
Computer Science (1 work) · Construction Grammar (1 work) · Grammaticalization (1 work) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (1 work) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (1 work) · Linguistics (1 work) · Mathematics (1 work) · Natural language processing (1 work) · Phenomenon (1 work) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (1 work)