In this two-volume set Prosodic Syntax in Chinese, the author develops a new model which proposes that the interaction between syntax and prosody is bi-directional and that prosody can not only constrains syntactic structures, but also activates syntactic operations. All of the facts investigated in Chinese provide new perspectives for linguistic theories as well as the insights into the nature of human languages. The subtitles of the two volumes are Theory and Facts and History and Change respectively, with each focusing on different topics (though each volume has both theoretical and (historical) descriptive concerns).
Prosodic Syntax in Chinese: Theory and Facts
Contents
List of figures
List of tables……………………………………………………………………………
Preface to the Revised Chinese Edition
Preface to the First Chinese Edition
List of abbreviations……………………………………………………………………
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
Contents
List of tables…………………………………………………………………………..
Preface
List of abbreviations…………………………………………………………………….
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
Index *
Biography
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).
