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advcl:coverb: adverbial coverb phrase

Coverb phrases in Cantonese are roughly equivalent to prepositional phrases in other languages. They are headed by a coverb followed by an object (analogous to preposition + object) and together introduce an extra argument, such as beneficiary, instrument, comitative, etc. Most of these Cantonese coverbs can take verbal markers (2-4), however, and therefore these phrases are considered clausal adjuncts here (in contrast to Mandarin where they are treated as prepositional phrases).

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advcl:coverb in other languages: [yue]
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