ABSTRACT
The syntactic structures and prosodic features of the Chinese language that have provided the affordance for further talk to be seen as part of the prior TCU are detailed in this chapter. Despite Chinese increments being primarily produced to be syntactically discontinuous, there are various Chinese grammatical structures that allow for increments to be produced in grammatically fitted manners as well. Chinese increments also use a mixed configuration of prosodic features to index continuation without having to be constrained by a fixed number of features. It is argued that these findings highlight forms of increments as an epiphenomenon of incrementing practices, and therefore grammatical structures of a language cannot be a pre-determinant for how increments are structured.
