Prosodic Syntax in Chinese: Theory and Facts

ISBN-13: 9780367729400 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 312 str.

Feng Shengli

Opis

This book has shown that prosody has played a crucial role in triggering the many changes in the diachronic development of Chinese. It is claimed that prosody can be an important factor in triggering, balancing and finally terminating changes in the syntactic evolution of Chinese.

Spis treści

List of figures

List of tables

List of abbreviations

Preface to the Revised Chinese Edition

Preface to the First Chinese Edition

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Some Relevant Concepts in Prosodic Phonology

Chapter 3 Words and Phrases

Chapter 4 The VP-Prosody: Balance between the Left and the Right

Chapter 5 Prosodically Motivated Syntactic Operations

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

Feng Shengli is Professor of Chinese Linguistics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests include prosodic syntax, poetic prosody, historical syntax and exegesis.