Immediate anteriority construction in Cantonese
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21458090 |
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| Authors | Pun Ho Lui (0009-0008-3347-4356, The University of Queensland https://dx.doi.org/1974 Brisbane Australia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 190-213 |
| Publication date | 2023-11-27 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cahiers de linguistique - Asie orientale (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0153-3320 • E-ISSN: 1960-6028 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/19606028-bja10034 |
| OpenAlex | W4389139212 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
This study explores the immediate anteriority (“ IMANTE ”) construction in Cantonese, in which two events form an “as soon as” relationship. By collecting examples from corpora, three types of IMANTE construction are categorized, based on the subordinate events: (i) achievement, (ii) completion point of a durational event, and (iii) inchoative point of a durational event. This study argues that (iii) is the default usage of a subordinate event when it is durational because it is unmarked and historically emerged earlier than (ii). Second, (iii) is seemingly a defining property of IMANTE besides “zero-time interval between two events”
Combinatorics · Epistemology · Geometry · Linguistics · Physics · Computer Science · History · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Mathematics · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
| Highly cited | No |
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