An Analytical Dissection of 'le'
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2000
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In order to see whether the Ie's in Cantonese behave according to the one-Ie theory or the
two- Ie theory, it is necessary to explore each theory in detail first. Since both theories have been
constructed upon Mandarin data, sections I and II will be devoted to introducing the two main
analyses of the Ie argument, Chao (1968), Li and Thompson's (1981) two-Ie theory and Shi
Ziqiang's (1990) one-Ie theory respectively. Section III then explores the Cantonese usage ofthe
lexical item Ie. Due to the fact that the Cantonese data seems to further support the two-Ie
theory, section IV is dedicated to exploring the suggested flaws and ambiguities that Shi (1990)
has suggested for the two-Ie theory, while attempting to fix the problems and strengthen the
theory by the use of extra Mandarin and Cantonese data. Section V summarizes all the newly
dissected Cantonese factors that might be useful for determining whether Mandarin contains one
Ie or two.