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Project

Grammatical Studies in Buddhist Hybrid Chinese: the passive construction in early Chinese translation literature (2nd-5th century AD)
Code
01SC2912
Duration
01 March 2012 → 31 October 2016
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Humanities
    • Chinese language
    • Diachronic linguistics
Keywords
grammaticatization Buddhist Hybrid Chinese passive construction Chinese historical linguistics Sanskrit and Chinese comparison external borrowing in the Chinese context
 
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.