Research on the Grammar of Cantonese in the Late Qing Dynasty and Its Development

Author: Yang Jingyu
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Publish Date: 2006-10-01
Features: This book describes the classification of words and sentence structures of Cantonese in the late Qing Dynasty from the perspective of grammatical development, summarizes the typological features of grammar, determines the nature of the grammatical content inferred from written materials, and compares it with contemporary Guangzhou dialect to identify changes over a century, examining the internal mechanisms of development.