16.2294, Qs: Chinese Historical Syntax; Language Endangerment

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LINGUIST List: Vol-16-2294. Sat Jul 30 2005. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 16.2294, Qs: Chinese Historical Syntax; Language Endangerment

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1)
Date: 29-Jul-2005
From: Keith Slater < keith.w.slater at gmail.com >
Subject: Chinese Historical Syntax 

2)
Date: 29-Jul-2005
From: Chiara Frigeni < cfrigeni at chass.utoronto.ca >
Subject: Language Death, Endangerment and Revitalization 

	
-------------------------Message 1 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 07:25:01
From: Keith Slater < keith.w.slater at gmail.com >
Subject: Chinese Historical Syntax 
 


Dear Linguists,

A friend of mine is doing some work in historical syntax, and is interested
in references to syntactic stability/change in literary Chinese over
periods of several centuries. His question is:

''I was wondering if anyone knows much about the relative stability of
classical literary Chinese (lexically, syntactically, or general
stylistics). Does classical Chinese have any kind of literary stability
during any 600 year period from c.400 BC to c.1912? Reference to either
prose or to the poets would be helpful, although the syntax and stylistics
of poetry are a bit shaky even at a fixed point in time,
cross-linguistically. Are you aware of any authors on this subject whom I
could look up or quote?''

If you can make any recommendations for research sources, please send them
to me. I'll post a summary of responses.

Keith 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Syntax

Language Family(ies): Chinese Subgroup


	
-------------------------Message 2 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 07:25:03
From: Chiara Frigeni < cfrigeni at chass.utoronto.ca >
Subject: Language Death, Endangerment and Revitalization 

	

As part of a project being carried out by the LSA Committee on Endangered
Languages and their Preservation, we are collecting information on courses
on language death, language endangerment, and language revitalization. 

If you have taught a course in these areas in recent years and are willing
to share your syllabus, we would greatly appreciate it. 

If you agree, your syllabus will become part of a website of teaching
resources on these topics.

Please send this information to Tanya Slavin at tanya.slavin at utoronto.ca

Thank you in advance for your participation. 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
 



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