Table of Contents

Preface

Abbreviations

I. Introduction

II. Some Basic Principles of Classical Chinese Syntax

III. Noun Predication IV. Verbal Predicates

V. Compound Verbal Predicates

VI. Numerical Expressions

VII. Noun Phrases and Nominalization

VIII. Topicalization and Exposure

IX. Pronouns and Related Words

X. Adverbs

XI. Negation

XII. Aspect, Time, and Mood

XIII. Adnominal and Adverbial Words of Inclusion and Restriction

XIV. Imperative, Interrogative and Exclamatory Sentences

XV. Complex Sentences

Notes

Sources of Examples

Bibliography

Index of Chinese Vocabulary

Items

General Index

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A classic in the field, this comprehensive analysis of classical Chinese includes a historical overview, principles of word order and sentence structure, and analyses of sentence types and complex sentences.

About the Author

Edwin G. Pulleyblank is a professor emeritus in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia.

Reviews

By any measure the most important book-length work on Classical Chinese grammar to have appeared in a Western language since Gabelentz's comprehensive grammar of more than a century ago ... a very sophisticated and scholarly treatment of Classical Chinese grammar, it is all the same entirely appropriate for even a beginning-level class.
*Journal of Asian Studies*

Finally there is a comprehensive grammar of Wenyan in English. Here in one volume one has handy the major grammar references needed to approach Classical Chinese texts. This useful book is the first comprehensive treatment of the grammar of the ancient form of Chinese used by the great philosophers like Confucius and Mencius.... useful to all students of Classical Chinese language and philosophy.
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