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The Evolution of Chinese Grammar
Yuzhi Shi
出版Cambridge University Press, 2023-03-23
主題Foreign Language Study / GeneralLanguage Arts & Disciplines / GeneralLanguage Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Syntax
ISBN11089243019781108924306
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=7C-yEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋The Chinese language has the longest well-documented history among all human languages, making it an invaluable resource for studying how languages develop and change through time. Based on a twenty-year long research project, this pioneering book is the English version of an award-winning study originally published in Chinese. It provides an evolutionary perspective on the history of Chinese grammar, tracing its development from its thirteenth-Century BC origins to the present day. It investigates all the major changes in the history of the language within contemporary linguistic frameworks, and illustrates these with a wide range of examples taken from every stage in the language's development, showing how the author's findings are relevant to contemporary descriptive, theoretical, and historical linguistics. Shedding light on the essential properties of Chinese and, ultimately, language in general, it is essential reading for academic researchers and students of Asian linguistics, historical linguistics and syntactic theory.