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Late Han Chinese: A Study of the Archaic-Han Shift

Late Han Chinese: A Study of the Archaic-Han Shift

Paperback

Series: Heritage

ChineseGrammar & StyleLinguistics

ISBN10: 1442631171
ISBN13: 9781442631175
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: Dec 15 1964
Pages: 162
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.35 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English

This book continues and carries a stage further Professor Dobson's pioneering researches into the nature and development of Classical Chinese. He has here compared a Late Archaic text with a paraphrase of that text written in Late Han Chinese. From that comparison he describes in systematic detail the changes that occur in Classical Chinese in the intervening five hundred years. These changes, unlike the changes that take place between Early and Middle and Middle and Late Archaic Chinese, which are formal only, show a fundamental shift. The empty words of Classical Chinese which, in Archaic Chinese, are crucial as grammatical indicators, in Late Han become, as later philogists have traditionally described them, full words. Many Archaic particles become obsolete in Late Han. The full words in Late Han, by contrast, perform a more predictable grammatical function. Periphrastic forms replace participles for negation, mood, voice, and the like. Full words tend towards compounding and to greater restriction in syntactical deployment. This change Professor Dobson characterizes as the Archaic-Han Shift. The Archaic-Han Shift anticipates features of the Chinese language which are familiar in Modern Standard Chinese.

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