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Adjectives, which are probably of verbal origin, are not inflected for degree of comparison and may be used as adverbs without any change of form.
Among these utterance particles, some of them have a verbal origin.
The verbal origin of 來 lai 'come' is not debatable as it is still being used as a verb in modern Chinese.
For the Cantonese utterance particles that cannot be seen in Mandarin, some of them also have a verbal origin and may play a role in predication in Cantonese, such as 添 tim ([tim53]), 啩 gwaa [kwa33]), and 喎 wo.
The counterparts of the Mandarin utterance particles that have a verbal origin can also be found in Cantonese, such as 喇 laa ([la33]) (likely cognate with Mandarin le) and 嚟 lei ([lei21]) (cognate with Mandarin 來著 laizhe).
It is highly likely that these three particles in Mandarin, namely, 了 le, 來著 laizhe, and 吧 ba, all have a verbal origin, which can be traced back to verbs like 了 liao 'finish', 來 lai 'come', 著 zhuo 'order', and 罷 ba 'stop'stop
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