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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 *
Summary
This set 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.
