Morphosyntactic Change in Chinese from the 3rd to 20th Century

3世纪至20世纪汉语形态句法的变迁

• 批准号: 9421410
• 负责人: Charles Li
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of California-Santa Barbara
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing grant
• 财政年份: 1995
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1995-08-01 至 1999-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9421410&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Morphosyntactic; Change; Chinese; 3rd; 20th

This project aims at describing and explaining the morpho- syntactic changes of Chinese from the third century A.D. to the present. The investigators have examined a large number of texts, selecting at least one appropriate item best representing the vernacular language for each century from the third century A.D. to the present, and have carried out preliminary investigation into the diachronic change of a number of morpho-syntactic structures. A total of twenty-three texts have been chosen, and they constitute the source of empirical data for the project. On the basis of the empirical data from the selected vernacular texts, the PIs will describe the diachronic development of a dozen morpho-syntactic structures in Chinese over the three-year course of this project. The ultimate goal of the project is to prepare a historical grammar of Chinese covering seventeen centuries of morpho-syntactic change. On the one hand, the grammar will serve as a reference tool for linguists as well as sinologists specializing in Chinese literature, history and cultural studies, on the other hand it will provide the first overall view of the diachronic drift of an isolating language which has endured two thousand years without changing its prototypical isolating status.

本项目旨在描述和解释从公元3世纪到现在汉语的形态句法变化。研究人员考察了大量的文本，从公元3世纪到现在，选择了至少一项最能代表白话文的词语，并对一些形态句法结构的历时变化进行了初步调查。总共选择了23个文本，它们构成了该项目的经验数据来源。基于选定的白话文本的经验数据，PIs将描述在本项目三年的过程中汉语中十几个形态句法结构的历时发展。该项目的最终目标是编写一本涵盖17个世纪形态句法变化的汉语历史语法书。一方面，语法将作为语言学家和专门从事中国文学、历史和文化研究的汉学家的参考工具；另一方面，它将提供第一个关于一种孤立的语言历时漂移的全景，这种孤立的语言经历了两千年，而不改变其典型的孤立状态。