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Project
An Outline of the Syntax of Early Vernacular Chinese (8th U+2013 11th century)
The project deals with the formative period of vernacular Chinese. Based on the study of relevant source texts and manuscripts dating between the 8th and 11th century, it aims at describing and analyzing the development of syntactic constructions during that period.
Date:1 Apr 2014 → 31 Jan 2015
Keywords:Chinese syntax, historical linguistics, Early Colloquial Chinese, Early Vernacular Chinese, Late Medieval Chinese
Disciplines:Chinese language, Historical linguistics