作者：张伯江  方梅
出版社：Routledge

       The functional perspective on Chinese syntax has yielded various new achievements since its introduction to Chinese linguistics in the 1980s.
       This two-volume book is one of the earliest and most influential works to study the Chinese language using functional grammar. With local Beijing vernacular (Pekingese) as a basis, the information structure and focus structure of the Chinese language are systematically examined. By using written works and recordings from Beijingers, the authors discuss topics such as the relationship between word order and focus, and the distinction between normal focus and contrastive focus.
       In addition, the authors also subject the reference and grammatical categories of the Chinese language to a functional scrutiny while discussion of word classes and their functions creatively combines modern linguistic theories and traditional Chinese linguistic theories. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of Chinese linguistics and linguistics in general.

                                          Contents

       Vol. I

       Introduction: corpus and approach                                                                 1
       PART I
       Information structure                                                                                     17
       1 Thematic structure of spoken Pekingese                                                   19
       2 Thematic structure in narration: sentence-middle modal particles             43
       3 Thematic structure in conversation: an analysis of translocation               68
       PART II
       Focus structure                                                                                              99
       4 Word order: object vs. directional complement                                         101
       5 Word order: object vs. verbal classifier                                                     136
       6 Means for contrastive focus representation                                              166
       PART III 
       Backgrounding constructions                                                                       189
       7 A transitivity interpretation of serial verb constructions in Chinese           191
       8 Imperfective clause “V着”                                                                          203
       9 Zero cataphora of clause subject                                                              223

       Vol. II