Typological Change in Chinese Syntax (Oxford Linguistics)

by Dan Xu (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2006

  $242.09

  Presenting an interpretation of 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.