Bibliograph

The evolution of Chinese grammar, Yuzhi Shi, National University of Singapore

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The evolution of Chinese grammar, Yuzhi Shi, National University of Singapore

Language

eng

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The evolution of Chinese grammar

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

1373629425

Responsibility statement

Yuzhi Shi, National University of Singapore

Series statement

Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Summary

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.--, Provided by publisher

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