Foreword

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Foreword V
3. Contents VII
4. List of Abbreviations IX
5. Theory and fact – A study of the translated Buddhist scriptures of the Medieval Period from the perspective of language contact 1
6. On the origin of the Chinese reflexive ziji from the perspective of the Medieval Chinese Buddhist scriptures 15
7. The origin and development of negative exclusive particles in the Chinese language 41
8. The postpositions suo 所 and bian 边 in translated Chinese Buddhist scriptures of the Medieval Period 75
9. Variant reduplication and four-character state adjectives in Yuan Zaju 96
10. The correlation between the Chinese purpose construction “VP + qu (去, ‘go’)” and SOV languages 125
11. On the Han’er Yanyu of the Yuan Dynasty 149
12. A study of the special syntactic features in Yuan baihua 168
13. On the special syntactic features in the vernacular imperial edicts of the early Ming Dynasty (1368–1424) 191
14. The influence of language contact on word order of some minority languages in Southern China 205
15. Second language acquisition and contactinduced language change in the history of the Chinese language 237
16. Postscript 254
17. Index 255