A History of the Chinese Language

ISBN-13: 9780367209841 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 230 str.

USA.) Dong Hongyuan (George Washington University

Opis

A History of the Chinese Language provides an introduction to the historical development of Chinese from its Proto-Sino-Tibetan roots in prehistoric times to Modern Standard Chinese. It presents a chronological survey of the various stages of the Chinese language, covering key aspects such as phonology, syntax and semantics.

O autorze

Hongyuan Dong is Associate Professor of Chinese Language and Linguistics in the Department of East Asian Languages & Literatures at the George Washington University. He is the author of Semantics of Chinese Questions: An Interface Approach (Routledge 2019).