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Grammatical Studies in Buddhist Hybrid Chinese: the passive construction in early Chinese translation literature (2nd-5th century AD)

The thesis is a study of early Buddhist Hybrid Chinese with an amphasis on the development of the passive constructions. Based on the quantitative analysis of materials collected in a database, the evolution of passive constructions, their distributions during different periods, questions concerning grammaticalization processes, and the influence of Indic languages and Chinese dialects will be studied and analyzed.

Date:1 Mar 2012 →  31 Oct 2016
Keywords:grammaticatization, Buddhist Hybrid Chinese, passive construction, Chinese historical linguistics, Sanskrit and Chinese comparison, external borrowing in the Chinese context
Disciplines:Diachronic linguistics, Chinese language