Edwin G, Pulleyblank Outline of Classical Chinese Grammar UBC PRESS / VANCOUVER© UBC Press 1995 All rights reserved, No part ofthis publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without prior writen permission of the publisher, Printed in Canad on ad-free paper == ISBN 0-7748.0505-6 ‘Canadian Cataloguing in Publication D Pulleyblank, Edwin G. Edwin George), 1922- (Outline of classical Chinese grammar Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-7748.0305.6 1. Chinese language ~ Grammar, Historical. 2. Chinese language ~ to 600. 1. Tile PLUIOLPS4 1995 4951'S _C95.910219-1 ‘This book has been published with the help ofa grant fom the Canadian Federation for the Humanities, using funds provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Financial assistance was alo provided by the Chiang Ching-kvo Found: tional Scholarly Exchange UBC Press also gratefully acknowledges the ongoing support to its publishing program ‘rom the Canada Council, the Province of British Columbia Cultural Services Branch, and the Department of Communications ofthe Government of Canada UBC Press University of British Columbia {6344 Memorial Road Vancouver, BC V6T 122 (604) 822-3259 Fax; (608) 822-6083Outline of Classical Chinese Grammar Outline of Classical Chinese Grammar is a comprehensive introduction to the syntactical analysis of Classical Chinese. Focusing on the language of the high classical period, which ranges from the time of Confucius to the unification of the empire by Qin in-221, the book pays particular attention to the Mencius, the Lainyu, and, toa lesser extent, the Zudzhudn texts ‘Renowned for his work in Classical Chinese, Edwin Pulleyblank opens the book with a brief historical overview and a discussion of the relationship be- tween the writing system and the phonology. This is followed by an outline of. the overall principles of word order and sentence structure, He then deals with the main sentence types — nominal predicates, verbal predicates, and numerical expressions, which constitute a special type of quasiverbal predication. The final section covers topics such as subordinate constituents of sentences, non- declarative sentence types, and complex sentences. Clear and well organized, Outline of Classical Chinese Grammar is an authoritative study and will bean invaluable resource tool for anyone involved in Chinese language studies Edwin G. Pulleyblank is professor emeritus of the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of Lexicon of Recon- structed Pronunciation in Early Middle Chinese, Late Middle Chinese, and Early ‘Mandarin (1991) and Middle Chinese: A Study in Historical Phonology (1984).