Pusong Zhao

List of John Benjamins publications in which Pusong Zhao is involved.

Article

Zhuang, Huibin, Pusong Zhao and Shengli Feng 2025 Foot-shift and disyllabification in the history of Chinese: With a revisit of syllabic structures of Old Chinese Language and Linguistics 26:1, pp. 123–154 | Article

This paper argues that the Chinese language has undergone a foot-shift from the Old Chinese monosyllabic foot to a Modern Chinese disyllabic foot. It will be shown that the natural simplification of Old Chinese syllables has caused the foot-shift, resulting in disyllabification. The… read more