Contents List of figures List of tables List of abbreviations Preface by Halliday 王宗炎序 Preface by Chomsky 沈家煊序 導(dǎo)讀 1 Introduction 1.1 Rationale:why investigate Chinese words 1.2 The scope of this work 2 Defining the word in Chinese 2.1 What is a ''word'' : different views 2.2 The Ghinese concept of''word'' 2.3 How we will define ''word'' in Chinese 3 Chinese word components 3.1 Describing the components 3.2 Form classes of the components 3.3 Criteria for determining form class of Chinese word components 3.4 Morphological analysis of Chinese word components 3.5 The nature of the components 4 Gestalt Chinese words 4.1 Word types 4.2 Nouns 4.3 Verbs 4.4 Nouns and verbs by component form class: statistical tendencies 4.5 Chinese words: special properties 5 X-bar analysis of Chinese words 5.1 Basic X-bar properties 5.2 X-bar properties applied to words 5.3 X-bar morphology: previous proposals 5.4 An alternative proposal for Chinese X-bar morphology 5.5 The concept of ''head'' applied to Chinese words 6 Lexicalization and Chinese words 6.1 Lexicalization and the relation between word and constituent 6.2 LexicaliTation and the availability of word-internal information 6.3 Lexicalization and grmmnaticalization 6.4 Lexicalization and the formation ofnewwords 7 Chinese words and the lexicon 7.1 What is''the lexicon'' 7.2 The lexicon and lexical access 7.3 Lexical accessin Chinese 7.4 The Chinese lexicon: what is ''listed'' 7.5 Chinese characters and the lexicon 8 Chinese words: conclusions 8.1 What have we discovered about words 8.2 The reality of the ''word'' References Index 文庫索引