UNITS IN MANDARIN CONVERSATION PROSODY, DISCOURSE, AND GRAMMAR -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Preface -- Table of contents -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Tables -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Objectives -- 1.2. Organization of the book -- 2. Preliminaries and Methodology -- 2.1. Theoretical preliminaries -- 2.1.1. Discourse and grammar -- 2.1.2. The discourse functional orientation -- 2.1.3. Properties of information flow -- 2.1.3.1. The intonation unit as the basic prosodic unit of language -- 2.1.3.2. Information status: Activation states and new, accessible, and given referents -- 2.1.3.3. Speaker's assumption about the hearer: Identifiability -- 2.1.4. Definitions of grammatical terms -- 2.1.4.1. The clause -- 2.1.4.2. Full clauses and elliptical clauses -- 2.1.4.3. Subclasses of full clauses and elliptical clauses -- 2.1.4.3.1. Lexical and pronominal full clauses -- 2.1.4.3.2. Types of elliptical clauses -- 2.1.4.3.3. Interim summary -- 2.1.4.4. Grammatical roles: A, S, and o -- 2.1.4.5. Degrees of transitivity -- 2.2. Interim summary -- 2.3. Methodology -- 2.3.1. Database -- 2.3.2. Transcribing conventions -- 2.3.3. Coding method -- 2.4. Summary -- 3. Prosodic Properties of Mandarin Intonation Units -- 3.0. Overview of research in Mandarin prosody -- 3.1. Identifying Mandarin intonation units -- 3.2. Universal foundations for the reality of the IU in Mandarin -- 3.3. Intonation unit classes -- 3.4. Additional language-specific properties of Mandarin intonation units -- 3.4.1. Particles and IUs -- 3.4.2. The size of the MIU -- 3.4.3. Interim summary -- 3.5. Summary -- 4. Grammatical Structure of the Mandarin Intonation Unit -- 4.0. Introduction -- 4.1. Methodology -- 4.1.1. Coding categories -- 4.1.2. Summary and taxonomy of structural types -- 4.2. Distribution of unit types -- 4.3. Interpreting the results.

4.4. Further analysis of the data -- 4.5. Residual issues -- 4.6. Summary -- 5. The Pragmatics of NP Intonation Units -- 5.0. Introduction -- 5.1. Taxonomies of NP intonation units -- 5.1.1. Attachable vs. detached NPs -- 5.1.2. Organizing configurations of NP IUs -- 5.1.5. Functional types of NP IUs -- 5.1.4. Interim summary -- 5.2. The referential type -- 5.2.1. Referent introducing -- 5.2.2. Referent activating -- 5.2.3. Referent framing -- 5.2.4. Referent anchoring -- 5.2.5. Referent reinforcing -- 5.2.6. Referent predicating -- 5.2.7. Referent listing -- 5.2.8. Referent topicalization -- 5.2.9. Referent contrasting -- 5.2.10. Interim summary -- 5.3. The interactional type -- 5.3.1. NP IUs as repetitions -- 5.3.2. NP IUs as collaborative finishes -- 5.3.3. Interim summary -- 5.4. The rhetorical type -- 5.5. Interim summary -- 5.6. Discussion -- 5.7. Summary -- 6. The Preferred Clause Structure in Conversation -- 6.0. Introduction -- 6.1. Verb clause types -- 6.2. Coding guidelines -- 6.2.1. One verb, one clause -- 6.2.2. Polysemous verbs -- 6.2.3. Conflated V-O expressions -- 6.2.4. Special morpho-syntactic constructions -- 6.2.5. Argument types -- 6.2.6. Interim summary -- 6.3. Distribution of clausal IUs in terms of transitivity -- 6.4. Distribution of clausal IUs in terms of argument type -- 6.5. Ellipses on grammatical roles: A, S, and O -- 6.6. Interim summary -- 6.7. Understanding the preferred clause structure in conversational discourse -- 6.7.1. Why are low transitives favored? -- 6.7.2. Why X V, i.e., why one overt argument per clause? -- 6.7.3. Why overt A in low transitivies, and overt O in high transitivies? -- 6.7.4. Interim summary -- 6.8. The preferred clause structure in Mandarin conversation -- 6.9. Summary -- 7. Non-Anaphoric Elliptical Clausal Intonation Units -- 7.0. Introduction -- 7.1. Taxonomy and distribution.

7.2. The suppressed argument type -- 7.2.1. Generalizing predications (GP) -- 7.2.2. Agent-less (AL) constructions -- 7.2.3. Recapitulative (Recap) constructions -- 7.2.4. Interim summary -- 7.3. The null argument type -- 7.3.1. Assertive clauses -- 7.3.2. Temporal/Spatial expressions -- 7.3.3. Interim summary -- 7.4. The unspecifiable argument type -- 7.5. Discussion -- 7.6. Summary -- 8. Low Transitivity Pronominal Full Clausal IUs -- 8.0. Introduction -- 8.1. Distribution of full clausal IUs -- 8.2. Taxonomies and distribution of low transitivity full clausal IUs -- 8.2.1. Pronominal vs. full NP -- 8.2.2. Functional types -- 8.2.3. Interim summary -- 8.3. Quotation clauses -- 8.3.1. Quotes of speech -- 8.3.2. Quotes of thoughts -- 8.3.3. Interim summary -- 8.3.4. The grammar of quotation clauses -- 8.3.5. Discourse motivations of the grammar of quotation clauses -- 8.3.6. Interim summary -- 8.4. Recipient-oriented clauses -- 8.4.1. Distribution and characteristics -- 8.4.2. The attention-getting type -- 8.4.3. Imperative, interrogative, and involved generalizing predication types of recipient clauses -- 8.4.4. Interim summary -- 8.5. Discussion -- 8.6. Summary -- 9. Units of Speech and of Grammar -- 9.0. Units of speech as a level of linguistic structure -- 9.1. Major speech units in Mandarin conversation -- 9.1.1. The NP as a major speech unit -- 9.1.2. The VE as a major speech unit -- 9.1.3. The X V configurations as major speech units -- 9.1.4. Interim summary -- 9.2. The syntax of speech units -- 9.3. Understanding Mandarin grammar -- 9.4. Speech units and structural constituency -- 9.5. What do speech units reveal about linguistic unities? -- 9.6. Understanding grammar with reference to the act of speaking -- 9.7. Summary -- 10. Conclusions -- Notes -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7.

Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- References -- Appendix: Transcription Conventions -- Index.