Project

An Outline of the Syntax of Early Vernacular Chinese (8th – 11th century)

Code
3PS00113
Duration
01 April 2014 → 31 January 2015
Funding
Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotor
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Chinese language
    • Historical linguistics
Keywords
Chinese syntax historical linguistics Late Medieval Chinese Early Colloquial Chinese Early Vernacular Chinese
 
Project description

The project deals with the formative period of vernacular Chinese. Based on the study of relevant source texts and manuscripts dating between the 8th and 11th century, it aims at describing and analyzing the development of syntactic constructions during that period.