Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Abstract ix
4. Glossary and transcriptions xi
5. Acknowledgements xiii
6. Part I. Grammaticalization of give in Cantonese
7. Chapter 1. Introduction 3
8. Chapter 2. Multi-functionality of give in Chinese dialects and neighboring non-Sinitic languages 17
9. Chapter 3. Grammaticalization of give in Cantonese 39
10. Chapter 4. Diachronic development of give and its functions in Cantonese 55
11. Part II. Word order change in Cantonese double-object construction
12. Chapter 5. Word order typology of the double-object construction in Chinese dialects 105
13. Chapter 6. Relationship between IO DO and DO IO patterns 125
14. Chapter 7. On-going word order change in Cantonese double-object construction 137
15. Chapter 8. Concluding remarks and future work 173
16. References 177
17. Appendices
18. Appendix 1. Survey of the syntactic functions of give in Chinese dialects and neighboring non-Sinitic languages 201
19. Appendix 2. List of pre-modern Cantonese dialect materials 231
20. Appendix 3. Frequency distribution of double-object patterns in Wang Shuo’s corpus 233
21. Appendix 4. Double-object sentences with the IO DO pattern found in pre-modern Cantonese dialect materials 235
22. Appendix 5. Sentences used in the production task 243
23. Appendix 6. Sentences used in the perception task 251
24. Appendix 7. Information sheet for the fieldwork of the double-object construction in Hong Kong Cantonese 253
25. Appendix 8. Non-native double-object sentence patterns used by the informants in the production task 257
26. Index 259