Systemic Functional Grammar of Cantonese

Eden Sum-hung Li has taught at the Open University of Hong Kong, Macquarie University and the University of Hong Kong. He is the author of A Systemic Functional Grammar of Chinese and Language, Society and Culture in Hong Kong, the first author of Systemic Functional Political Discourse Analysis: A Text-based Study and English Today: Forms, Functions and Uses and the co-author of Analysing, and Applying English Grammar and The Corpus of Hong Kong Political Discourse. In addition, Li has published more than 60 book chapters, international journal articles, proceedings, and conference papers, including Chapter 21, ‘The nominal group of Chinese’, in The Routledge Handbook of Systemic Functional Linguistics.Winnie Chor is an Associate Professor at the Hong Kong Baptist University. Her research focuses on semantic change (from a grammaticalization perspective), discourse analysis, Cantonese linguistics (with a focus on particles), and the stance-taking phenomenon. She is the author of the book Directional Particles in Cantonese: Form, Function, and Grammaticalization (published by John Benjamins). Her articles appear in journals such as Journal of Pragmatics, Journal of Historical Linguistics, Language and Linguistics, and Taiwan Journal of Linguistics. She has also authored and co-authored numerous articles in books published by publishers such as John Benjamins, Routledge, Peter Lang, and China Social Sciences Press.

• Preface1 The study of Cantonese: an overview2 Systemic Functional Linguistics: an introductory note3 Phonology and morphology in Cantonese4 Below the clause: word classes5 Below the clause: group and phrase6 Clause as representation: Construing experience I7 Clause as representation: construing experience II8 Clause as representation: construing circumstantial profiles9 Clause as exchange: enacting relationship10 Clause as exchange: expressing personal assessment11 Clause as message: enabling discourse12 Clause as message: regulating information flow13 Above the clause: clausal relationship14 Around the clause: textual connexity