Focus Manifestation in Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese: A Comparative Perspective

ISBN-13: 9781138568112 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 254 str.

Peppina Po Lee

Opis

One prominent function of natural language is to convey information.

O autorze

Peppina Po-lun Lee is Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Translation at City University of Hong Kong. She has published more than 40 research papers in refereed journals and edited books. Her major publications have appeared in Lingua, Linguistics, Journal of Pragmatics, and Language and Linguistics, as well as ZhongguoYuwen (Studies of the Chinese Language) and Dangdai Yuyanxue (Contemporary Linguistics). Specializing in theoretical linguistics, her research interests cover semantics, syntax-semantics interface, and Chinese and Cantonese linguistics. She has worked on a variety of research topics, including focus and information structure, negation, eventuality, quantification, and particles.