Derivation by tone change in Cantonese: A preliminary survey
粤方言声调派生调查初探
Tak Him Kam 甘徳谦

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In Cantonese, there are cases where two semantically related monosyllabic morphemes contrast with each other by tone only. It is found that such cases may be divided into four groups, A, B, C and D. In Group A, all the derived morphemes bear the yin qu tone and in Group B, all the derived morphemes bear the yang qu tone except for one derivative which is pronounced in the yang ru tone. In Group C, the derivatives all bear the yin shang tone whereas in Group D, except for one derivative which bears the high yin ru tone, the derivatives all take on the yin ping tone.

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Journal of Chinese Linguistics   volume 5 (ISSN 0091-3723)
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