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<P>In this book, Professor Dobson has laid the foundations for a systematic and scientific study of the grammar of Classical Chinese. He has devised a system set up according to the canons of modern linguistic science – a system which is at once intrinsic to the language itself, one that makes possible a proper accounting for all of the data and does so with economy, and one which produces solutions which are repoduceable and predictable. </P> <P>This volume deals in detail with <EM>Late Archaic Chinese</EM>, the language of the classical texts of <EM>Mencius</EM>, <EM>Micius</EM>, <EM>Chung-Tzu</EM> and <EM>Tso-chuan</EM>. A total accounting is provided for all forms and particles occurring at this period. A feature of the description is that the analytical categories set up are based on levels and types of distribution, that is to say, that word and unitary classes are characterized by environmental, rather than by intrinsic, features. Thus the classes and categories recognized are directly observable in the material. In a language in which accidence plays no part, but in which grammatical values are environmentally imposed, such a system enables observation of a precise and pred

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Author

Dobson, W.A.C.H.

Publisher

University of Toronto Press

Published

1959

Language

EN

ISBN

9781442639928

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Linguistics, Historical Fiction