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Typological Change in Chinese Syntax

Typological Change in Chinese Syntax

Hardcover

Series: Oxford Linguistics

Linguistics

ISBN10: 0199297568
ISBN13: 9780199297566
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Nov 23 2006
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
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. 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.

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