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This work presents the results of recent research on two much discussed topics in Chinese linguistics: word-order change and grammaticalization. It describes the data on which the study is based and discusses the history of Chinese word-order change of prepositional phrases.

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“This is a very important work, the first book in English on the historical grammar of Chinese. The scholarship is excellent, and besides discovering and presenting fresh data, the author also makes significant contributions to theoretical analysis.”—Alain Peyraube, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales

Table of Contents
1. Grammaticalization and the history of Chinese syntax; 2. Word-order change in prepositional phrases; 3. The BA construction and the grammaticalization of BA; 4. The history of LE; 5. The history of DE; 6. The historical syntax and the history of Chinese.

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      Publisher Stanford University Press
      Published 8 January 1996
      ISBN-13 9780804724180
      978-0804724180
      ISBN-10 0804724180
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      Grammar, syntax and morphology

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This work presents the results of recent research on two much discussed topics in Chinese linguistics: word-order change and grammaticalization. It describes the data on which the study is based and discusses the history of Chinese word-order change of prepositional phrases.

      Trade Review
      “This is a very important work, the first book in English on the historical grammar of Chinese. The scholarship is excellent, and besides discovering and presenting fresh data, the author also makes significant contributions to theoretical analysis.”—Alain Peyraube, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales

      Table of Contents
      1. Grammaticalization and the history of Chinese syntax; 2. Word-order change in prepositional phrases; 3. The BA construction and the grammaticalization of BA; 4. The history of LE; 5. The history of DE; 6. The historical syntax and the history of Chinese.

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