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Author Wang Cong, Wang Jue, Yeshes Vodgsal Atshogs, Feng Shengli
ISBN 9787561954201
Pub Date 2018-12
Page Count:212
Target Audience(Age)
Annotation Language 英文
Medium 纸质书
The relationship among tones, intonation and sentence-final particles was first studied in Feng Shengli (2015), in which Feng put forward the Intonation-Particle Hypothesis (I-P Hypothesis). This book interprets and verifies the I-P Hypothesis from several aspects. First, in the part of theoretical foundation, this book introduces in detail what is I-P Hypothesis and the interdependence and interaction among tones, intonation and sentence-final particles; second, in the part of empirical demonstration, this book verifies the I-P Hypothesis based on ancient Chinese, Chinese ethnic minority languages, and the Bantu languages in Africa. The I-P Hypothesis will have (or have already had) significant influence on the studies of the history of Chinese language and syntax, and the appearance of sentence-final particles will become an important mark for observing the evolution of language types.