This paper examines the use of two copula-like words as used in the language of the Zhongshan bronze inscriptions: wei ff£ and ye tÉJ. Since the date of the inscriptions is firmly established as 310 ВСЕ (± 2-3 years) and their language, unlike other bronze inscriptions, is written in a highly narrative style, the linguistic information the inscriptions yield can be used to show what authentic Classical Chinese was like. The paper argues that wei and ye can be clearly distinguished in terms of function, the former being used for strongly focussing that which follows, while the latter for adding an explanatory force to that which precedes. It also suggests that the word wei, ubiquitous in the Shang oracle-bone inscriptions, is still used like...
After nearly hundred years of archaeological discoveries in China, a great number of inscriptions fr...
The thesis examines the use of the GIVE verbs yǔ 與, cì 賜 and xiàn 獻 and the SAY verbs yù 語, yán 言, w...
Languages change over time and ancient languages have been studied in linguistics and other related ...
This paper examines the use of two copula-like words as used in the language of the Zhongshan bronze...
This paper discusses the proposals of Li and Thompson (1977), Yen (1986), and Feng (1993) in relatio...
This thesis comprises the first major survey of an extensive corpus of bronze inscriptions of pre-Ha...
This paper argues that both yu ^F" (1fc ) and zai fé in the Shang bone inscriptions have to be analy...
This dissertation is particularly concerned with various changes that occurred over roughly the last...
This dissertation is particularly concerned with various changes that occurred over roughly the last...
In this thesis I discuss the nature and significance of three different layers of linguistic context...
Abstract: Unlike China’s earliest readable texts, the late Shāng 商 (13th-11th c. BCE) ‘oracle bone ...
This thesis deals with two fundamental issues in the study of the Shang Oracle-Bone Inscriptions (c....
International audienceAccording to the Report on the Spring and Autumn bronze inscriptions discovere...
The article provides brief information about the Chinese language and Chinese language communities (...
This thesis will attempt to give a syntactic, semantic and pragmatic account of numerical expressio...
After nearly hundred years of archaeological discoveries in China, a great number of inscriptions fr...
The thesis examines the use of the GIVE verbs yǔ 與, cì 賜 and xiàn 獻 and the SAY verbs yù 語, yán 言, w...
Languages change over time and ancient languages have been studied in linguistics and other related ...
This paper examines the use of two copula-like words as used in the language of the Zhongshan bronze...
This paper discusses the proposals of Li and Thompson (1977), Yen (1986), and Feng (1993) in relatio...
This thesis comprises the first major survey of an extensive corpus of bronze inscriptions of pre-Ha...
This paper argues that both yu ^F" (1fc ) and zai fé in the Shang bone inscriptions have to be analy...
This dissertation is particularly concerned with various changes that occurred over roughly the last...
This dissertation is particularly concerned with various changes that occurred over roughly the last...
In this thesis I discuss the nature and significance of three different layers of linguistic context...
Abstract: Unlike China’s earliest readable texts, the late Shāng 商 (13th-11th c. BCE) ‘oracle bone ...
This thesis deals with two fundamental issues in the study of the Shang Oracle-Bone Inscriptions (c....
International audienceAccording to the Report on the Spring and Autumn bronze inscriptions discovere...
The article provides brief information about the Chinese language and Chinese language communities (...
This thesis will attempt to give a syntactic, semantic and pragmatic account of numerical expressio...
After nearly hundred years of archaeological discoveries in China, a great number of inscriptions fr...
The thesis examines the use of the GIVE verbs yǔ 與, cì 賜 and xiàn 獻 and the SAY verbs yù 語, yán 言, w...
Languages change over time and ancient languages have been studied in linguistics and other related ...