Degree: MA DegreeYear: 1996 Institute: The University of Manitoba (Canada) Adviser:
Charlotte Reenholtz. This thesis examines the function of the Cantonese nominal suffix …

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It is universally acknowledged that subjects tend to be definite and objects indefinite in
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ON (NON)-RESULTATIVE VV COMPOUNDS IN CHINESE∗ Natsumi Shibatai, Yasutada Sudoii
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The authors identify a plural marker-ɕiɛ in Chengdu Chinese that can apply to both count
and mass nouns, encoding plurality as well as definiteness. This post-nominal-ɕiɛ differs …

Sentences with substantive predicates (SSP), or nominal sentences as Otto Jespersen once
called, are common in Chinese. Monographs and textbooks dealing with Chinese grammar …

Although the normal vord order in Mandarin is SVO, there are a number of syntactic
processes that result in verb-final sentences. In the discussion given by Wang ms. 1972 …

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