Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. List of figures xi
4. List of tables xiii
5. Preface and acknowledgements ix
6. Abbreviations xv
7. Chapter 1 Introduction 1
8. Chapter 2 Typological features of Chinese and English 6
9. Chapter 3 Phonemic inventory, tone, and intonation 37
10. Chapter 4 Syllable structure and stress 63
11. Chapter 5 Writing system 87
12. Chapter 6 Notion of “word” and word classes 139
13. Chapter 7 Numeral classifiers and measure words 173
14. Chapter 8 Word structure and word formation 192
15. Chapter 9 Tense and viewpoint aspect 236
16. Chapter 10 Subject, topic, subject prominence, and topic prominence 268
17. Chapter 11 Zero anaphora 295
18. Chapter 12 Information structure 320
19. Chapter 13 Phrase structure and word order 348
20. Chapter 14 Conclusions 365
21. References 370
22. Index 393