Early Archaic Chinese

Description

A descriptive grammar of pre-Classical Chinese by W.A.C.H. Dobson, from the 1960s. From the introduction: "The present work is a descriptive grammar of Early Archaic Chinese, the language of document and inscription of ancient China in the eleventh and tenth centuries B.C. It is a companion volume to Late Archaic Chinese which described the grammar of the language of literature of the fourth and third centuries B.C. In Late Archaic Chinese, a formal analytical system was devised by which the grammatical features of Archaic Chinese can be accounted for. Within Archaic Chinese, however, which had a currency extending in time from the eleventh to the third centuries B.C., considerable evolutionary change is observable." Title Preface Contents Method&Analysis Procedure Method & Statement Summary Title Word Derivation Grammatical Word-classes Syntagma Conspectus of Syntagmatic Particles Verbal sentence Post-verbal Elements Agent Instrumental Subordinate Clause Anaphora in verbal sentence Sentential Mood; Time & Place Emphatic Exposure Verbal sentence in Summary Determinative sentence Sentences in distribution Substitution Miscellaneous Texts from EAC authors Literary texts Inscriptions Appendices Historical treatment of grammar Frequency of lexical items Frequency - Tables Frequency - Postscript References Lexicon & Index of Words