This book is divided
into four sections. The first section introduces the theoretical foundation for
the studies of Chinese prosodic words, including the prosodic structure,
prosodic hierarchy, and the theory of prosodic morphology with prosodic words
as the template. The second section elaborates on the operation of Chinese
prosodic morphology, proposing the “Template Rule of Chinese Prosodic Words”
and analyzing various phenomena of compound words in Chinese based on this
rule. The third section mainly talks about Chinese “word sense” as well as the
relationship between prosodic words and the word sense. The fourth section
makes some additional remarks on questions like “whether tone sandhi directly
points to prosodic words”, “which methods need special attention in the study
of prosodic grammar” and “the interaction between prosodic morphology and
prosodic syntax”.
Pei Yulai is an associate
professor in the School of Sinology, Xi’an International Studies University,
and a Ph.D. in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics from Peking University,
whose research interests focus on Chinese prosodic grammar and Chinese language
teaching, etc. Mr. Pei has hosted several projects of social sciences and
educational reform supported by national and provincial funds, and has won an
award of Outstanding Research Achievement of Philosophy and Social Sciences of
Shaanxi Province. His works include the academic book The Relation Between POS-NOS and Prosodic Structure’s Production and a number of papers published in Journal of Chinese Linguistics, Contemporary
Linguistics, Linguistic Sciences, Chinese Language Learning and other
journals.