Typological change in Chinese syntax

This new interpretation of the early history of Chinese argues that Old Chinese was typologically a "mixed" language. It shows that, though its dominant word order was subject-verb-object, this coexisted with subject-object-verb. Xu describes the typological changes that have taken place s...

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Glavni autor: Dan, Xu
Daljnji autori: Xu Dan
Jezik:Undetermined
Izdano: New York,Oxford Oxford University Press 2006
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Thư viện lưu trữ: Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Trà Vinh
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Sažetak:This new interpretation of the early history of Chinese argues that Old Chinese was typologically a "mixed" language. It shows that, though its dominant word order was subject-verb-object, this coexisted with subject-object-verb. Xu describes the typological changes that have taken place since the Han period and shows how Chinese evolved into a more analytic language, supporting her exposition with abundant examples from recently discovered texts. She focusses on syntactic issues, but pays close attention to closely related changes in phonology and the writing system
Opis:xii, 259 p.
24 cm
Bibliografija:Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-254) and index
ISBN:0199297568
9780199297566