Code
3PS00113
Duration
01 April 2014 → 31 January 2015
Funding
Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotor
Research disciplines
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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.