"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 …
1 Introduction -- 2 Prosodic Word as an Origin of Compounds in Classical Chinese -- 3 Monosyllabicity and Disyllabicity -- 4 Prosodically Constrained Compound Formation -- 5 Minimal and Maximal Word Effects -- 6 Prosodic Register Grammar -- 7 Compound Prosodic Word -- Sizige??? …
"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 …