Francisco Varo's grammar of the Mandarin language (1703) : an English translation of "Arte de la lengua Mandarina"
Francisco Varo's grammar of the Mandarin language (1703) : an English translation of "Arte de la lengua Mandarina"
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弗朗西斯科·瓦罗（Francisco Varo）的《普通话语法》（1703）：《Arte de la lengua Mandarina》的英文翻译
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10.1075/sihols.93
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2000
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Sandra Breitenbach
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作者：
F. Varo;W. S. Coblin;J. Levi;Sandra Breitenbach
弗朗西斯科瓦罗的艺术德拉Lengua Mandarina，完成约。1680年，是最早出版的语法的任何口语形式的中文和最充分的已知描述的标准语言的十七世纪。它毫无疑问地确定了这种“普通话”不是北京话或以北京为基础的，而是具有江淮或南京话的语音。它还提供了有关前现代汉语标准形式的性质和形成的重要信息，并将导致目前对汉语方言及其与区域语言形式和接受的白话文学的关系的看法的修正。最后，对清初精英阶层的语言风格、敬语使用、社会风俗等方面进行了详细的分析。这本书提供了1703年《艺术》文本的完整翻译，对瓦罗的生活和工作的广泛介绍，插入翻译的中文字符索引，以及语言学术语和概念的索引。这本书的读者应该是各种各样的，包括中国历史语言学家、比较语言学家和描述语言学家、研究清代历史和文学的学生、语言学史学家以及研究早期西方宗教和文化与中国接触的专家。
Francisco Varo’s Arte de la Lengua Mandarina , completed ca. 1680, is the earliest published grammar of any spoken form of Chinese and the fullest known description of the standard language of the seventeenth century. It establishes beyond doubt that this “Language of the Mandarins” was not Pekingese or Peking-based but had instead a Jiang-Huai or Nankingese-like phonology. It also provides important information about the nature and formation of pre-modern standard forms of Chinese and will lead to revisions of currently held views on Chinese koines and their relationship with regional speech forms and the received vernacular literature. Finally, it provides a wealth ot information on stylistic speech levels, honorific usage, and social customs of the elite during the early Qing period. The book provides a full translation of the 1703 text of the Arte , an extensive introduction to the life and work of Varo, an index of Chinese characters inserted into the translation, and an index of linguistic terms and concepts. It should be of interest to a diverse readership of Chinese historical, comparative, and descriptive linguists, students of Qing history and literature, historiographers of linguistics, and specialists in early Western religious and cultural contact with China.