On the Synchrony and Diachrony of Sentence-Final Particles
Wai M. Leung
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On the Synchrony and Diachrony of Sentence-Final Particles

The Case of WO in Cantonese

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This work attempts to examine the frequently used Sentence-Final Particle (SFP) wo3 in Hong Kong Cantonese synchronically and diachronically. In the past, most experts treated wo3 and another SFP bo3 as variant forms, with the former being the result of sound change from the latter. In order to investigate the development of wo3, the early materials, movies and the university corpus are employed for the collection of language examples. It is found that in terms of their meanings and functions, wo3 and bo3 were distinctly separate at the very beginning. The observation of the increase and decre...