Cantonese: A Comprehensive Grammar (Routledge Comprehensive Grammars)
Reviews of the first edition:'It is fortunate that the long-felt need for a Cantonese grammar should have been so competently met at the first attempt. This is an excellent book, down to earth, up-to-date, full of insights, replete with well-selected and illuminating examples, and written with minimal reliance on jargon, so that it is accessible to all who are interested in Cantonese.' -Professor Hugh Baker, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies'Cantonese: A Comprehensive Grammar represents the latest effort in writing a dialectal grammar, a grammar that aims to serve language students, teachers, and linguists alike with both challenge and elegance.' -Professor Samuel H.N. Cheung, International Review of Chinese Linguistics'A cover-to-cover reading leaves the impression that Matthews and Yip's work is undoubtably the reference grammar of Cantonese that we have been waiting for.' -Professor Alain Peyraube, International Review of Chinese Linguistics'Matthews and Yip make a formidable team in putting together what is, in essence, the first full-length treatment in English to date of the grammar of modern spoken Cantonese.' -Professor Marjorie Chan, Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association'The lack of a comprehensive reference grammar of Cantonese has long been a curious and embarrassing situation. Matthews and Yip's work therefore constitutes a landmark in Chinese linguistics.' -Professor Jeroen Wiedenhof, Glot International'Matthews and Yip have indeed written a comprehensive grammar, which addresses the needs of Western learners of Cantonese and of general linguists in a thorough and detailed way... the authors have given the Cantonese language a long overdue, rightful place and a proper prominence within the descriptions of Chinese.' -Professor Gisela Bruche-Schulz, Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale