Code
01SC2912
Duration
01 March 2012 → 31 October 2016
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Humanities and the arts
- Chinese language
- Diachronic linguistics
Keywords
grammaticatization
Buddhist Hybrid Chinese
passive construction
Chinese historical linguistics
Sanskrit and Chinese comparison
external borrowing in the Chinese context
Oriental languages
Late Antiquity
Middle Ages
Antiquity
Language and text analysis
Ancient Chinese
Chinese passive constructions
Passive constructions
Asia
Far East
Linguistics
Project description
The thesis is a study of early Buddhist Hybrid Chinese with an amphasis on the development of the passive constructions. Based on the quantitative analysis of materials collected in a database, the evolution of passive constructions, their distributions during different periods, questions concerning grammaticalization processes, and the influence of Indic languages and Chinese dialects will be studied and analyzed.