The Evolution of Chinese Grammar

· Cambridge University Press
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The Chinese language has the longest well-documented history among all human languages, making it an invaluable resource for studying how languages develop and change through time. Based on a twenty-year long research project, this pioneering book is the English version of an award-winning study originally published in Chinese. It provides an evolutionary perspective on the history of Chinese grammar, tracing its development from its thirteenth-Century BC origins to the present day. It investigates all the major changes in the history of the language within contemporary linguistic frameworks, and illustrates these with a wide range of examples taken from every stage in the language's development, showing how the author's findings are relevant to contemporary descriptive, theoretical, and historical linguistics. Shedding light on the essential properties of Chinese and, ultimately, language in general, it is essential reading for academic researchers and students of Asian linguistics, historical linguistics and syntactic theory.

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Yuzhi Shi is Associate Professor in the Department of Chinese Studies at the National University of Singapore. He obtained an MA from the University of California, San Diego, in 1995 and a Ph.D. from Stanford University, in 1999. His major publications include Motivations and Mechanisms of Grammaticalization in Chinese (Peking University Press, 2006), Chinese Grammar (The Commercial Press in Peking, 2010) and The Historical Morpho-Syntax of Chinese, which won the Prize of China Excellent Publications in 2016.

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