Feng Shengli

Prosodic Syntax in Chinese

Theory and Facts

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9781138578913
• ISBN-10: 1138578916
• Artikelnr.: 60039673

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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