Hole, D: Focus and Background Marking in Mandarin Chinese

'[This] book is an outstanding piece of linguistic literature, with equally important contributions to both Chinese and general theoretical linguistics. It is written in a lucid way and uses formal technicalities only to the extent that they are inescapable ... its very honest, yet strict scholarly attitude brings fresh air into the literature of the field, which I appreciate above all of its numerous other merits.' - Cahiers de Linguistique - Asie Orientale

'This study provides a comprehensive, insightful, and responsible scrutiny
on information structure and semantics in Mandarin grammar, completed by a
careful consideration of the syntax-semantics interface ... [it] is an outstanding piece of work that I would recommend both to Chinese linguists, and to linguists interested in information structure.' - Linguist List