Author: Barbara Meisterernst
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110394014
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Many grammatical issues of Archaic and Medieval Chinese still lack a comprehensive analysis. The book provides the first thorough investigation of the syntactic and semantic constraints of the linguistic categories tense and aspect and their relation with the lexical aspect of the verb in Han period Chinese. The author uncovers fascinating details of a language with a highly restricted verbal morphology.