Word-Order Change and Grammaticalization in the History of Chinese - Hardcover

by Chaofen Sun (Author)

This pioneering work makes available the results of the most recent research-not only the author's but that of scholars all over the world-on two of the most discussed topics in the history of Chinese: word-order change and grammaticalization.

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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