Units in Mandarin Conversation : Prosody, Discourse and Grammar.

This book provides a new way of studying grammar. The basic thrust of the book is to investigate grammar based on a prosodic unit, the intonation unit (IU), in spontaneous speech. The author challenges the dominant practice in the study of syntax, which has been to focus on the unit of the artificia...

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Main Author: Tao, Hongyin
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1996.
Series:Studies in discourse and grammar ; 5.
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