This study examines path encoding in motion event expression in Cantonese spoken in Toronto and Hong Kong using a comparative variationist methodology informed by motion event typology. It…

簡介 Introduction 我手寫我心係一個用粵文寫作嘅兒童、青少年徵文活動。第一屆於 2025 年舉辦，有九個地區小朋友參與。 喺四十幾篇投稿裏面，三位評審揀出 18 篇優秀作品、配以粵拼、英文翻譯、專業聲演然後集合成書以及本網頁。 Writing from the Heart is a Cantonese writing initiative for 5-18 years old y…

A blog about natural language syntax. Topics will include (but are not limited to): syntax, semantics, morphology, typology and syntactic fieldwork.

A logical and clear exposition of hierarchy and locality by a leading figure in the field, Continuing Syntax takes students from an introductory level of syntactic theory to an understanding of cutting-edge research in the field. A comprehensive range of topics is covered, including configurationality, head-movement, clause structure, nominal structure, subjacency, barriers and phases, ensuring that students have a thorough understanding of all the main components of contemporary theory. The man

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Reading time: 5 minutes It’s December now, the month when the calendar helpfully provides me with a topic for the monthly article. So, here’s a short and sweet linguistic post with a fe…

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Tonal Change (biàndiào: 變調) is traditionally taken as the result of *-s suffix insertion in Old Chinese, which is syntactically motivated by operations such as causative alternation or defining a synt...

Cambridge Core - Asian Language and Linguistics - The Phonetics of Taiwanese

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A slang term for supposed mental damage done by overconsumption of trivial online content triumphed over a shortlist that also included “lore,” “demure” and “slop.”