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Linglib.Fragments.Cantonese.Determiners

Cantonese determiner inventory #

Cantonese (Sinitic, ISO yue) marks definiteness with the bare classifier phrase [Clf-N], which serves unique and anaphoric environments alike, and marks indefiniteness with the numeral-classifier phrase [jat-Clf-N]; demonstratives form a separate paradigm. The [Clf-N]-as-definite observation is due to [CS99b]; [Jen18] §6 analyzes [Clf-N] as an ambiguous definite parallel to English the.

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def Cantonese.Determiners.inventory :
Determiner.Inventory

The Cantonese determiners are the syncretic [Clf-N] definite, the [jat-Clf-N] indefinite, and the demonstrative paradigm (nei).

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    theorem Cantonese.Determiners.marking :
    inventory.markingStrategy = Semantics.Definiteness.DefMarkingStrategy.generallyMarked

    Cantonese derives the .generallyMarked Moroney cell.