TYPOLOGICAL CHANGE IN CHINESE SYNTAX.
Series: OXFORD LINGUISTICS
Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Published: 2006
Place of publication: OXFORD
Language: und; eng
Number of pages: 259
Description: Interpreting the early history of Chinese, this title argues that Old Chinese was typologically a 'mixed' language. It shows that, though its dominant word order was subject-verb-object this coexisted with subject-object-verb. It also describes the typological changes that have taken place since the Han period.