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Negation and Aspect: A comparative study of Mandarin and Cantonese varieties
… (bare negatives), Chapters 2 shows that where a variety has more than one standard negator, the distribution of the negators mostly creates systematic semantic contrast instead of any grammaticality consequence: Mandarin méiyǒu, Hong Kong Cantonese mou5 and Gaozhou Cantonese mau5 consistently …