Volume 97 Number 1(January 2018)

1Page Opening remarks by Prof. Bohui Zhan in the opening ceremony at “The 20th International Conference on Yue Dialects”Bohui Zhan Read article↗ 3Page The Quick Intonation and the Protracted Intonation in the Sentence-final Position in CantoneseYun Mai Read article↗ 17Page Whence Came the Use of “嚟” in Early Cantonese?Samuel Hung-Nin Cheung Read article↗ 41Page Linguistic Properties of Suffix Ding6 in CantoneseShing-Kit Wong Read article↗ 57Page Cantonese Sentence-final Particle Tim in the Three Domains of Acting, Knowing and UtteringYingqi Chen Read article↗ 65Page The Meanings and the Semantic Change of the Cantonese Sentence-final Particle gE2Maki Iida Read article↗ 79Page The Construction of the Multi-modal Cantonese Speech Corpus: A Speech Production PerspectiveXingquan Hou and Feng Yang Read article↗ 91Page A Study on M Hou as a Rhetorical Question in CantoneseMan-Ching Chiang Read article↗ 101Page Reanalysis of Initial Merger of /n-/ and /l-/ in Hong Kong CantoneseYuan Liang Read article↗ 111Page A Brief Introduction to the Tingkok Dialect of Taipo, New Territories of Hong KongChun-Fat Lau Read article↗ 121Page Cantonese is the Official Spoken Chinese in Hong KongPaul Maopeng Ma Read article↗ 133Page The Interclausal Functions of the Cantonese Progressive Marker Gan: Evidence from the Early and Contemporary Cantonese Corpus DataShin Kataoka Read article↗ 143Page An Analysis of the Issue on Deciding Proper Cantonese PronunciationsKing-Wai Siu Read article↗ 153Page The Distribution of Shape Classifiers across Chinese Dialects and the Characteristics of the Shape Classifiers System in Yue DialectsYifa Xu Read article↗ 169Page How to Diagnose the Syntactic Position of Sentence-final Position?Lawrence Yam-Leung Cheung and Crono Ming-San Tse Read article↗ 179Page Eight Special Cantonese Sentence-final Particles in Late Qing DynastyZixun Zhao Read article↗ 199Page VOT Contrasts in Zhongshan MinFrantišek Kratochvíl and Joanna Ut-Seong Sio Read article↗ 215Page On the Interaction between Negation and Aspect in Grammaticalisation: A Cross-linguistic Study of Three Chinese VarietiesCherry Chit-Yu Lam Read article↗ 233Page A New Type of Relative Clause in CantoneseElaine Lau and Stephen Matthews Read article↗ 245Page A Study of Anaphoric Non-specific Object Drop in Cantonese: Classification and DerivationPatrick Chi-Wai Lee Read article↗ 259Page Cantonese Neg-wh-quantifiers (Neg-whQ): A Syntactic Account in Comparative GrammarTheodora Man-Ki Lee Read article↗ 273Page Cantonese as Learned by Missionaries in the 19th Century: Language Variation in Easy Lessons in ChineseMinako Takekoshi Read article↗ 285Page Postscript (in Chinese)Sze-Wing Tang Read article↗