Readership: Scholars and graduate students of Chinese linguistics, philology, classical literature. General linguists interested in word-order typology and language universals. May be used as a text for advanced courses in Classical Chinese and Chinese diachronic syntax.
Dan Xu, Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations, Paris (INALCO)
1: From Old Chinese to Middle Chinese: Word order and word order change 2: Orientation of Verbs in Old Chinese 3: Causative Structures in Old Chinese 4: The Rise of Resultative Compounds 5: Negation in Old Chinese onclusion References Sources of Examples Appendix: Chinese Chronology Indexes
