Intermediate Cantonese Book

	Acknowledgements
	Introduction
1	Consonants and vowels	1
2	Tone contours	8
3	Changed tones	13
4	Reduplication	21
5	Word formation	29
6	Verb-object compounds	35
7	Adjectives and stative verbs	41
8	Classifiers revisited	46
9	Topic and focus	55
10	Using jeung	61
11	Serial verbs	66
12	Aspect markers	74
13	Comparisons	83
14	Resultative and causative sentences with dou	89
15	Quantification	97
16	Negative sentences	107
17	Questions and answers	113
18	Relative clauses	120
19	Subordinate clauses	127
20	Conditional sentences	135
21	Reported speech	143
22	Cantonese speech conventions	149
23	Particles and interjections	156
24	Colloquial syntax	165
25	Code-mixing and loanwords	172
	Key to exercises	179
	Glossary of grammatical terms	195
	Index	197