Cantonese complement-taking verbs

Cantonese complement-taking verbs as Verbs with their character and their [Noo07] class: the desideratives soeng 'want' and daasyun 'intend', the manipulatives hyun 'urge', bik 'force' and giu 'ask', the attitude verb seon 'believe', the utterance verb gong 'say' and the factive geidak 'remember' [MY94]. The size of the complement each selects, and the scope of an again-element across it, are the analysis of [LY26] and live in Studies/LiuYip2026.lean.

References

• [MY94]
• [Noo07]
• [LY26]

structure Cantonese.Verbs.Verbextends Verb : Type

A Cantonese verb: the cross-linguistic core with the jyutping as citation form, plus its characters and its complement-taking predicate class.

• valency : Valency
• voiceType : Option VoiceType
• passivizable : Bool
• perfectAuxiliaries : Finset PerfectAuxiliary
• vendlerClass : Option Aspect.VendlerClass
• scaleDimension : Option Degree.ScalarDimension
• scalePolarity : Polarity
• direction : Option Spatial.Path.Direction
• incrementality : Option Aspect.Incrementality
• phasal : Option Aspect.Phasal
• factivity : Option Presupposition.Factivity
• implicative : NaturalLogic.ImplicationSignature
• opaqueContext : Bool
• attitude : Option _root_.Attitude
• readings : List Reading
• complementSig : Option NaturalLogic.Signature
• levinClasses : Finset ArgumentStructure.LevinClass
• levinExcluded : Finset ArgumentStructure.LevinClass
• root : Semantics.Root
• morphs : List Morphology.Morph
• speechActVerb : Bool
• senseTag : SenseTag
• hanzi : String

  The characters.

• predicateClass : Complement.PredicateClass

  The complement-taking predicate class.

def Cantonese.Verbs.soeng : Verb

soeng 想 'want'.

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def Cantonese.Verbs.hyun : Verb

hyun 勸 'urge'.

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def Cantonese.Verbs.bik : Verb

bik 逼 'force'.

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def Cantonese.Verbs.giu : Verb

giu 叫 'ask, tell'.

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def Cantonese.Verbs.daasyun : Verb

daasyun 打算 'intend, plan'.

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def Cantonese.Verbs.seon : Verb

seon 信 'believe'.

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def Cantonese.Verbs.gong : Verb

gong 講 'say'.

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def Cantonese.Verbs.geidak : Verb

geidak 記得 'remember', a factive.

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def Cantonese.Verbs.all : List Verb

The verbs.

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