Prosodic Syntax in Chinese

Shengli Feng is Professor of Chinese Linguistics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests include Prosodic Syntax, Poetic Prosody, Historical Syntax and Exegesis. He has published extensively on various aspects of prosody, including Prosodic Morphology in Mandarin Chinese (by Routledge), Prosodic Syntax in Chinese (the Chinese edition, by the Commercial Press).

Prosodic Syntax in Chinese: Theory and Facts

Contents

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Preface to the Revised Chinese Edition

Preface to the First Chinese Edition

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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

References

Index

Prosodic Syntax in Chinese: History and Change

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Preface

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Chapter 1 Word Order Change and Stress Shift

Chapter 2 Prosodic Structure and the Origin of Bei Constructions

Chapter 3 Prosodic Structure and the Birth of Ba Constructions

Chapter 4 Prosodically Constrained Localizers in Classical and Modern Chinese

Postscript to the Chinese Edition……………………………………………………….

References

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