Outline of Classical Chinese Grammar

Häftad bok. UBC Press. 2000. 194 sidor.

Mycket gott skick. Språk: Engelska. "While Chinas has a long tradition of lexicography and of phonological studies, unlike Europe and India it has no tradition of descriptive or prescriptive grammar. 'Outline of Classical Chinese Grammar' fills that gap and is the first comprehensive introduction to syntactical analysis of Classical Chinese. Focusing on the language of the high classical period, which ranges from the time of Confucius to the unification of the empire by Qín in -221, the book pays particular attention to the 'Mencius', the 'Lúnyŭ', and, to a lesser extent, the 'Zuŏzhuàn' texts. Renowned for his work in Classical Chinese, Edwin Pulleyblank opens the book with a brief historical overview and a discussion of the relationship between the writing system and the phonology. An outline of the overall principles of word order and sentence structure follows. He then deals with the main sentence types: nominal predicates, verbal predicates, and numerical expressions, which constitute a special type of quasiverbal predication. The final section covers topics such as subordinate constituents of sentences, non-declarative sentence types, and complex sentences. Clear and well organized, 'Outline of Classical Chinese Grammar' is an authoritative study and will be an invaluable resource tool for anyone involved in Chinese language studies".