Prosodic Syntax In Chinese

Author : Feng Shengli
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351263269

Get Book

Prosodic Syntax in Chinese by Feng Shengli Pdf

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.

Author : Shengli Feng
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Chinese language
ISBN : UOM:39015056211181

Get Book

Prosodic Syntax and Morphology in Chinese by Shengli Feng Pdf

Author : Feng Shengli
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351263221

Get Book

Prosodic Syntax in Chinese by Feng Shengli Pdf

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 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). In this volume, the author first introduces the relevant theories and concepts of Metrical Phonology, Prosodic Phonology and Formal Syntax, and formulates the Government-based Nuclear Stress Rule in Chinese which can explain how and why Mandarin Chinese sentences are structured in a particular way. It is proposed that prosody can not only blocks the legitimate syntactic structures but also activates the potential syntactic operations. The former can be seen from the ungrammatical sentences that are caused by the inoperable NSR in these structures while the latter can be seen from sentences that are derived from syntactic movements which, however, are operable only when being motivated by prosody.

Author : FENG. SHENGLI
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367728990

Get Book

Prosodic Syntax in Chinese by FENG. SHENGLI Pdf

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 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). In this volume, the author first introduces the relevant theories and concepts of Metrical Phonology, Prosodic Phonology and Formal Syntax, and formulates the Government-based Nuclear Stress Rule in Chinese which can explain how and why Mandarin Chinese sentences are structured in a particular way. It is proposed that prosody can not only blocks the legitimate syntactic structures but also activates the potential syntactic operations. The former can be seen from the ungrammatical sentences that are caused by the inoperable NSR in these structures while the latter can be seen from sentences that are derived from syntactic movements which, however, are operable only when being motivated by prosody.

Author : Shengli Feng
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Chinese language
ISBN : OCLC:174348529

Get Book

Prosodic Structure and Prosodically Constrained Syntax in Chinese by Shengli Feng Pdf

Author : Hongming Zhang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-25
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781351776196

Get Book

Syntax-Phonology Interface by Hongming Zhang Pdf

This book centers on theoretical issues of phonology-syntax interface based on tone sandhi in Chinese dialects. It uses patterns in tone sandhi to study how speech should be divided into domains of various sizes or levels. Tone sandhi refers to tonal changes that occur to a sequence of adjacent syllables or words. The size of this sequence (or the domain) is determined by various factors, in particular the syntactic structure of the words and the original tones of the words. Chinese dialects offer a rich body of data on tone sandhi, and hence great evidence for examining the phonology-syntax interface, and for examining the resulting levels of domains (the prosodic hierarchy). Syntax-Phonology Interface: Argumentation from Tone Sandhi in Chinese Dialects is an extremely valuable text for graduate students and scholars in the fields of linguistics and Chinese.

Author : Hongming Zhang,Youyong Qian
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351212854

Get Book

Prosodic Studies by Hongming Zhang,Youyong Qian Pdf

Prosody is one of the core components of language and speech, indicating information about syntax, turn-taking in conversation, types of utterances, such as questions or statements, as well as speakers' attitudes and feelings. This edited volume takes studies in prosody on Asian languages as well as examples from other languages. It brings together the most recent research in the field and also charts the influence on such diverse fields as multimedia communication and SLA. Intended for a wide audience of linguists that includes neighbouring disciplines such as computational sciences, psycholinguists, and specialists in language acquisition, Prosodic Studies is also ideal for scholars and researchers working in intonation who want a complement of information on specifics.

Author : Hongyin Tao
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027226150

Get Book

Units in Mandarin Conversation by Hongyin Tao Pdf

Hongyin Tao provides a new way of studying grammar based on the prosodic or intonation unit in spontaneous speech, rather than focusing on the unit of the artificially constructed sentence. Some notions developed from sentence-level data often do not account well for speech data. Contrary to the notion that the basic syntactic structure of a sentence comprises of both an NP and a VP, the author shows that a Mandarin sentence in spoken discourse can consist of a lone NP or a transitive verbal expression without any explicit argument (not anaphora). The author proposes the speech unit as one with which the grammar of Mandarin can better be understood. The book is of interest to scholars of discourse analysis, syntax, prosody, typology as well as of the Mandarin language.

Author : Shengli Feng
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-14
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781315392769

Get Book

Prosodic Morphology in Mandarin Chinese by Shengli Feng Pdf

It is not entirely clear if modern Chinese is a monosyllabic or disyllabic language. Although a disyllabic prosodic unit of some sort has long been considered by many to be at play in Chinese grammar, the intuition is not always rigidly fleshed out theoretically in the area of Chinese morphology. In this book, Shengli Feng applies the theoretical model of prosodic morphology to Chinese morphology to provide the theoretical clarity regarding how and why Mandarin Chinese words are structured in a particular way. All of the facts generated by the system of prosodic morphology in Chinese provide new perspectives for linguistic theory, as well as insights for teaching Chinese and studying of Chinese poetic prosody.

Author : Yen-hui Audrey Li,Andrew Simpson,Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai
Publisher : Oxford Studies in Comparative
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780199945672

Get Book

Chinese Syntax in a Cross-linguistic Perspective by Yen-hui Audrey Li,Andrew Simpson,Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai Pdf

"Chinese Syntax in a Cross-linguistic Perspective collects twelve new papers that explore the syntax of Chinese in comparison with other languages"--

Author : Minghui Dong,Jingxia Lin,Xuri Tang
Publisher : Springer
Page : 772 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-23
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319495088

Get Book

Chinese Lexical Semantics by Minghui Dong,Jingxia Lin,Xuri Tang Pdf

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 17th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop, CLSW 2016, held in Singapore, Singapore, in May 2016. The 70 regular papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 182 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: lexicon and morphology, the syntax-semantics interface, corpus and resource, natural language processing, case study of lexical semantics, extended study and application.

Author : Hongming Zhang
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-25
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781351776202

Get Book

Syntax-Phonology Interface by Hongming Zhang Pdf

This book centers on theoretical issues of phonology-syntax interface based on tone sandhi in Chinese dialects. It uses patterns in tone sandhi to study how speech should be divided into domains of various sizes or levels. Tone sandhi refers to tonal changes that occur to a sequence of adjacent syllables or words. The size of this sequence (or the domain) is determined by various factors, in particular the syntactic structure of the words and the original tones of the words. Chinese dialects offer a rich body of data on tone sandhi, and hence great evidence for examining the phonology-syntax interface, and for examining the resulting levels of domains (the prosodic hierarchy). Syntax-Phonology Interface: Argumentation from Tone Sandhi in Chinese Dialects is an extremely valuable text for graduate students and scholars in the fields of linguistics and Chinese.

Author : Dan Xu,Xu Dan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199297566

Get Book

Typological Change in Chinese Syntax by Dan Xu,Xu Dan Pdf

This new interpretation of the early history of Chinese argues that Old Chinese was typologically a 'mixed' language. It shows that, though its dominant word order was subject-verb-object, this coexisted with subject-object-verb. Professor Xu demonstrates that Old Chinese was not the analytic language it has usually been assumed to be, and that it employed morphological and lexical devices as well as syntactic means. She describes the typological changes that have taken place sincethe Han period and shows how Chinese evolved into a more analytic language, supporting her exposition with abundant examples. She draws where possible on archaeological findings in order to distinguish between versions of texts transmitted and sometimes modified through the hands of generations ofcopyists.The author focusses on syntactic issues, including word order, verbs, causative structures, resultative compounds, and negation, but also pays close attention to what she demonstrates are closely related changes in phonology and the writing system.The book will interest scholars and graduate students of Chinese linguistics, philology, classical literature as well as general linguists interested in word-order typology and language universals. It may be also be used as a text for advanced courses in Classical Chinese and Chinese diachronic syntax.

Author : Qin Lu,Hong Gao
Publisher : Springer
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-11
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319271941

Get Book

Chinese Lexical Semantics by Qin Lu,Hong Gao Pdf

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 16th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop, CLSW 2015, held in Beijing, China, in May 2015. The 64 regular and 4 short papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 248 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: lexical semantics; lexical resources; lexicology; natural language processing and applications; and syntax.

Author : Perry Link
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780674071155

Get Book

An Anatomy of Chinese by Perry Link Pdf

During the Cultural Revolution, Mao exhorted the Chinese people to “smash the four olds”: old customs, old culture, old habits, and old ideas. Yet when the Red Guards in Tiananmen Square chanted “We want to see Chairman Mao,” they unknowingly used a classical rhythm that dates back to the Han period and is the very embodiment of the four olds. An Anatomy of Chinese reveals how rhythms, conceptual metaphors, and political language convey time-honored meanings of which Chinese speakers themselves may not be consciously aware, and contributes to the ongoing debate over whether language shapes thought, or vice versa. Perry Link’s inquiry into the workings of Chinese reveals convergences and divergences with English, most strikingly in the area of conceptual metaphor. Different spatial metaphors for consciousness, for instance, mean that English speakers wake up while speakers of Chinese wake across. Other underlying metaphors in the two languages are similar, lending support to theories that locate the origins of language in the brain. The distinction between daily-life language and official language has been unusually significant in contemporary China, and Link explores how ordinary citizens learn to play language games, artfully wielding officialese to advance their interests or defend themselves from others. Particularly provocative is Link’s consideration of how Indo-European languages, with their preference for abstract nouns, generate philosophical puzzles that Chinese, with its preference for verbs, avoids. The mind-body problem that has plagued Western culture may be fundamentally less problematic for speakers of Chinese.