{"product_id":"wordorder-change-and-grammaticalization-in-the-history-of-chinese-9780804724180","title":"Wordorder Change and Grammaticalization in the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. 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.","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50577498603863,"sku":"9780804724180","price":52.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804724180.jpg?v=1746095584","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/wordorder-change-and-grammaticalization-in-the-history-of-chinese-9780804724180","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}