18.1864, Books: Historical Linguistics/Syntax/Typology: Xu

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Subject: Typological Change in Chinese Syntax: Xu

 

	
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From: Jennyq Breaker < jenny.breaker at oup.com >
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Title: Typological Change in Chinese Syntax 
Publication Year: 2007 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
	   http://www.oup.com/us
	

Book URL: http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780199297566 


Author: Dan Xu

Hardback: ISBN: 0199297568 Pages: 272 Price: U.K. £ 60.00


Abstract:

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. Professor 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. 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Syntax
                     Typology

Subject Language(s): Chinese, Mandarin (cmn)
                     Old Chinese (och)


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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