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Most four-syllable Chinese idioms are in the structure of first two syllables sharing inter-relationship and the other two syllables sharing idiomatic structural interaction (thereafter, 2 + 2 structure), while some asymmetry idioms mainly refer to those with the first one syllable working independently and the other three syllables expressing idiomatic relation (thereafter 1 + 3 structure). It is interesting that the latter can also be transferred to 2 + 2 structure once affected by the prosody. In this paper, under the related principles of prosodic morphology and prosodic syntax, idiomatic structural analyses are made on 1 + 3 structure, which syntactically cover the structure of adverbial-verb, subject-predicator, verb-object, verb-complement and adjective-complement, to explore how they can be transformed to 2 + 2 structure in prosody and what will be the aftermath of this transformation.
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Luo, J. (2015). On the Interaction Between the Structure and the Prosody of Chinese 1 + 3 Idioms. In: Lu, Q., Gao, H. (eds) Chinese Lexical Semantics. CLSW 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9332. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27194-1_34
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