The Sinitic Languages: A Contribution to Sinological Linguistics

ISBN-13: 9780367732004 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 330 str.

Mieczyslaw Jerzy Künstler

Opis

The Sinitic Languages is the quintessence of Mieczysław Jerzy Künstler’s thirty years of research into the Chinese languages. Both amateurs and experts interested in this topic are invited to follow Künstler on his intellectual journey into Sinological linguistics.

Spis treści

Table of Contents: Editor’s Foreword – About the Author – Introduction to the English Version – Introduction – Chapter 1: Typology, Kinship, and Areal Features – Chapter 2: Writing and Language – Chapter 3: The Oldest Phase of the Chinese Language – Chapter 4: The Archaic Chinese Language – Chapter 5: The Post-Archaic Period – Chapter 6: From the Han Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty – Chapter 7: The Middle or Ancient Chinese – Chapter 8: Transitory Times – Chapter 9: The Modern Period – Chapter 10: The Contemporary Pan-national Language – Chapter 11: The Chinese Tower of Babel – Chapter 12: Mandarin Languages – Chapter 13: Southern Chinese Languages – Addendum – Bibliography – Index with Glossary

O autorze

Mieczysław Jerzy Künstler (1933–2007) was an internationally renowned Polish Sinologist, who published numerous academic and popularized articles and books on China's culture and her languages. Influenced by the French school of Sinology with its focus on philology, linguistics, and translation, Künstler decisively shaped the research of China in Poland in the second half of the 20th century.