Typological change in Chinese syntax / Xu Dan.

Interpreting the early history of Chinese, this title argues that Old Chinese was typologically a 'mixed' language. It shows that, though its dominant word order was subject-verb-object this coexisted with subject-object-verb. It also describes the typological changes that have taken place...

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Main Author: Xu, Dan, 1955-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Series:Oxford linguistics.
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