A Systemic Functional Grammar of Cantonese: From Clausal Grammar to Discourse Semantics

About Eden Sum-hung LiWinnie Chor

Eden Sum-hung Li had taught at the Open University of Hong Kong Macquarie University and the University of Hong Kong. He is the author of A Systemic Functional Grammar of Chinese and Language Society and Culture in Hong Kong the first author of Systemic Functional Political Discourse Analysis: A Text-based Study and English Today: Forms Functions and Uses and the co-author of Analysing and Applying English Grammar and The Corpus of Hong Kong Political Discourse. In addition Li has published more than 60 book chapters international journal articles proceedings and conference papers including Chapter 21 The nominal group of Chinese in The Routledge Handbook of Systemic Functional Linguistics.Winnie Chor is an Assistant Professor at the Hong Kong Baptist University. Her research focuses on semantic change (from a grammaticalization perspective) discourse analysis Cantonese linguistics (with a focus on particles) and the stance-taking phenomenon. She is the author of the book Directional Particles in Cantonese: Form Function and Grammaticalization (published by John Benjamins). Her articles appear in journals such as Journal of Pragmatics Journal of Historical Linguistics Language and Linguistics and Taiwan Journal of Linguistics. She has also (co-)authored numerous articles in books published by publishers such as John Benjamins Routledge Peter Lang and China Social Sciences Press.