Title: Units in Mandarin conversation : prosody, discourse, and gramar /
Authors: Tao, Hongyin.
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
Year: 1996
Subjects: Chinese language Discourse analysis.; Chinese language Grammar.
Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Preliminaries and Methodology -- 3. Prosodic Properties of Mandarin Intonation Units -- 4. Grammatical Structure of the Mandarin Intonation Unit -- 5. The Pragmatics of NP Intonation Units -- 6. The Preferred Clause Structure in Conversation -- 7. Non-Anaphoric Elliptical Clausal Intonation Units -- 8. Low Transitivity Pronominal Full Clausal IUs -- 9. Units of Speech and of Grammar -- 10. Conclusions.