Prosodic Syntax in Chinese: Theory and Facts - Couverture rigide

Livre 5 sur 15: Chinese Linguistics

Shengli, Feng

 
9781138578913: Prosodic Syntax in Chinese: Theory and Facts
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ISBN 10 : 1138578916 ISBN 13 : 9781138578913
Editeur : Routledge, 2019

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l?auteur

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.

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Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1138578916
ISBN 13 
9781138578913
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
312
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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gpsr@libri.de

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