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Deng, Lin – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This dissertation offers a new dynamic account of the evolution of the demonstrative system in pre-Qin Chinese based on a comprehensive linguistic analysis of the phonological, morphological, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic aspects of demonstratives attested in two corpora of excavated texts, i.e. the oracle-bone inscriptions dated to the late…
Descriptors: Semantics, Linguistics, Chinese, Diachronic Linguistics