Grammar of Classical Chinese: between Philology and Typology

Speaker: Lukáš Zádrapa

Time: 6 pm CET 4, 11 November

Lukáš Zádrapa is head of the Department of Sinology at Charles University in Prague. He is a specialist in historical linguistics of Chinese, theories and histories of Chinese writing, and ancient Chinese literature and philosophy. His published works include Word-Class Flexibility in Classical Chinese: Verbal and Adverbial Uses of Nouns (Brill, 2011), developed from his PhD thesis, as well as translations of Xunzi and Hanfeizi. Those interested in learning more about Ancient Chinese (1200 BCE–Late Han) grammar and syntax, word classes, early inscriptions and excavated texts, will find useful Dr Zádrapa’s comprehensive entry in the Oxford Bibliographies in Chinese Studies, “The Ancient Chinese Language.”


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References

Essential bibliography: Classical Chinese

TLS – Thesaurus Linguae Sericae 漢學文典

Academia Sinica Tagged Corpus of Old Chinese

Sources of inspiration

Zádrapa, Lukáš (2011), Word-Class Flexibility in Classical Chinese: Verbal and Adverbial Uses of Nouns. Leiden and Boston: Brill.

Zádrapa, Lukáš (2017), Word Classes, Premodern. In: R. P. E. Sybesma, W. Behr, Gu Yueguo, Z. J. Handel, C. T. J. Huang, James Myers, edd., Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics, vol. 4, Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2017, 566–576.

Basic theoretical publications

Croft, William (2001), Radical Construction Grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Langacker, Ronald W. (1987), Foundations of Cognitive Grammar. Vol. 1. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Cristofaro, Sonia (2003), Subordination. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria (1993), Nominalizations. London: Routledge.

Guō Ruì 郭锐 (2002), Xiàndài Hànyǔ cílèi yánjiū 现代汉语词类研究. Běijīng: Shāngwù yìnshūguǎn.

Yuán Yùlín 袁毓林 (2010), Hànyǔ cílèi de rènzhī yánjiū hé móhu huàfēn 汉语词类的认知研究和模糊划分. Shànghǎi : Shànghǎi jiàoyù chūbǎnshè

Thematic works

Zhū Déxī  朱德熙 (1983), Zìzhǐ hé zhuǎnzhǐ – Hànyǔ míngcíhuà biāojì „de, zhě, suǒ, zhī“ de yǔfǎ gōngnéng hé yǔyì gōngnéng 自指和转指 — 汉语名词化标记“的、者、所、之”的语法功能和语义功能, Fāngyán 1, 18–33.

Zhū Déxī 朱德熙, Lú Jiǎwén 卢甲文, Mǎ Zhēn 马真 (1961), Guānyú dòngcí xíngróngcí „míngwùhuà“ de wènti 关于动词形容词“名物化”的问题, Běijīng dàxué xuébào 4, 53–66.

Zhāng Wénguó 张文国 (2005),  Hànyǔ de míng-dòng cílèi zhuǎnbiàn fāzhǎn 古汉语的名动词类转变及其发展. Běijīng: Zhōnghuá shūjú.

Freundlich, Jerzy (1988), Nominal Functions and Nominalisation in Classical Chinese, Ph.D. dissertation, SOAS, University of London.

Gassmann, Robert H. (1982), Zur Syntax von Einbettungsstrukturen im klassischen Chinesisch. Bern: Peter Lang.


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