Preface
Abbreviations
I. Introduction
II. Some Basic Principles of Classical Chinese Syntax
III. Noun Predication IV. Verbal Predicates
V. Compound Verbal Predicates
VI. Numerical Expressions
VII. Noun Phrases and Nominalization
VIII. Topicalization and Exposure
IX. Pronouns and Related Words
X. Adverbs
XI. Negation
XII. Aspect, Time, and Mood
XIII. Adnominal and Adverbial Words of Inclusion and Restriction
XIV. Imperative, Interrogative and Exclamatory Sentences
XV. Complex Sentences
Notes
Sources of Examples
Bibliography
Index of Chinese Vocabulary
Items
General Index
A classic in the field, this comprehensive analysis of classical Chinese includes a historical overview, principles of word order and sentence structure, and analyses of sentence types and complex sentences.
Edwin G. Pulleyblank is a professor emeritus in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia.
By any measure the most important book-length work on Classical
Chinese grammar to have appeared in a Western language since
Gabelentz's comprehensive grammar of more than a century ago ... a
very sophisticated and scholarly treatment of Classical Chinese
grammar, it is all the same entirely appropriate for even a
beginning-level class.
*Journal of Asian Studies*
Finally there is a comprehensive grammar of Wenyan in English. Here
in one volume one has handy the major grammar references needed to
approach Classical Chinese texts. This useful book is the first
comprehensive treatment of the grammar of the ancient form of
Chinese used by the great philosophers like Confucius and
Mencius.... useful to all students of Classical Chinese language
and philosophy.
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