{"product_id":"9781442639928","title":"Late Archaic Chinese: A Grammatical Study","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this book, Professor Dobson has laid the foundations for a systematic and scientific study of the grammar of Classical Chinese. He has devised a system set up according to the canons of modern linguistic science - a system which is at once intrinsic to the language itself, one that makes possible a proper accounting for all of the data and does so with economy, and one which produces solutions which are repoduceable and predictable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume deals in detail with \u003cem\u003eLate Archaic Chinese\u003c\/em\u003e, the language of the classical texts of \u003cem\u003eMencius\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMicius\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eChung-Tzu\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eTso-chuan\u003c\/em\u003e. A total accounting is provided for all forms and particles occurring at this period. A feature of the description is that the analytical categories set up are based on levels and types of distribution, that is to say, that word and unitary classes are characterized by environmental, rather than by intrinsic, features. Thus the classes and categories recognized are directly observable in the material. In a language in which accidence plays no part, but in which grammatical values are environmentally imposed, such a system enables observation of a precise and predictable kind. \u003cem\u003eLate Archaic Chinese \u003c\/em\u003ehas now, for the first time, been scientifically, comprehensively and precisely described.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book contains in addition to a grammatical description of \u003cem\u003eLate Archaic Chinese\u003c\/em\u003e, passages from Late Archaic authors (produced in Chinese characters and romanized script) with a complete grammatical analysis and translation, and a lexicon of grammatical particles in\u003cem\u003e Late Archaic Chinese\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book will take its place among the standard sinological reference works but it will also be of interest to linguists for the contribution it makes to theoretical linguistics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChinese characters used in printing the book were loaned by the Harvard Yenching Institute, Harvard, University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47043191406832,"sku":"9781442639928","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781442639928_p0.jpg?v=1763806622","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781442639928","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}