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Cantonese grammar wheels

Grammar Wheels

"I gave my three books to her at the market." — Change any wheels to see how Cantonese encodes each shift.

Sources for Cantonese

The grammatical descriptions on this page are informed by the following published reference and descriptive grammars. Grammatical facts themselves are not subject to copyright; the scholars who documented them deserve attribution.

  1. Matthews, Stephen & Yip, Virginia (2011). Cantonese: A Comprehensive Grammar, 2nd ed. Routledge (542 pp.). — THE definitive reference grammar; cross-referenced as "CRG" throughout Alderete et al. 2017. [via static/grammar-library/yue/matthews-yip-2011-cantonese-grammar.pdf]

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