Acronym
01S1515
Code
01SC1515
Duration
16 February 2015 → 30 November 2019
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Humanities and the arts
- Chinese language
- Diachronic linguistics
- Theoretical linguistics
Keywords
early Chinese Buddhist literature
tense
aspect
Oriental languages
Middle Ages
Language and text analysis
Chinese
Asia
Far East
Linguistics
Project description
This research deals with the contextualized usages of tense and aspect expressions in early Chinese Buddhist literature produced before the fifth century, the primary sources of early Chinese. The linguistic features of their tense and aspect markers will be compared with those in pre-Buddhist texts and contemporary non-Buddhist texts thus revealing how those markers developed in early Chinese.