Shengli Feng
List of John Benjamins publications in which Shengli Feng is involved.
Articles
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
2015 On Nuclear Stress Rule in Chinese Cognitive Linguistic Studies 2:1, pp. 1–23 | Article
This paper discusses the syntactic function of Nuclear Stress Rule (NSR) in Chinese; it is argued that the NSR is a central mechanism developed in the theory of prosodic syntax under which the interface effects between prosody and syntax are derived. It is shown that the NS not only carries the… read more
2013 Review of Sun (2012): Research on Literary Grammar in Modern Written Chinese Chinese Language and Discourse 4:2, pp. 277–280 | Review