"This book has its origins in my PhD thesis written for the University of Sydney, Australia."--Acknowledgments.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction and theoretical preliminaries -- Directional particles in Cantonese -- Mechanisms in grammaticalization: semantic-pragmatic perspectives -- Metaphor: the fundamental mechanism -- Pragmatic enrichment: a context-based mechanism -- Subjectification: a mechanism leading to stancemarking -- Conclusion and future research.
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