i) This book has pioneered in proposing that prosody imposes a constraint on syntactic structures.
ii) This book provides a brand new way to investigate the phonology (prosody)-syntax interface shown in the facts of the Chinese language.
iii) This book has discovered several rules of the constraint of prosody on syntax and accounted for the various types of syntactic phenomena in both Ancient Chinese and Mandarin Chinese by resorting to the formal syntactic theories.
iv) This book has developed a new branch of linguistics, the Prosodic Syntax on the basis of linguistic facts in Chinese.