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Prosodic Syntax in Chinese - Theory and Facts (Hardcover) Loot Price: R4,150
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Prosodic Syntax in Chinese - Theory and Facts (Hardcover): Feng Shengli

Prosodic Syntax in Chinese - Theory and Facts (Hardcover)

Feng Shengli

Series: Chinese Linguistics

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In the two volumes of 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 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 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). This book has shown that prosody has played a crucial role in triggering the many changes in the diachronic development of Chinese. On the one hand, this book investigates the existence of SOV structures in Early Archaic Chinese, a SVO language, and then demonstrates the role of VO prosody in causing the disappearance of the remnant structures after the Han Dynasty. On the other hand, this book surveys the historical evidence for analyses of bei passives and Ba-constructions, and then offers a prosodic analysis on the origin of these two sentence patterns in Chinese. It is claimed that prosody can be an important factor in triggering, balancing and finally terminating changes in the syntactic evolution of Chinese.

General

Imprint: Routledge
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Chinese Linguistics
Release date: May 2019
First published: 2019
Authors: Feng Shengli
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 978-1-138-57891-3
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > General
Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure > General
Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Area / regional studies > General
LSN: 1-138-57891-6
Barcode: 9781138578913

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