Titlebook: A General Theory of Ancient Chinese; Lihong Jiang,Mingshan Ren Book 2023 Zhejiang University Press 2023 Critical Interpretation of Ancient

吞下

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-39646-9Wang Yinzhi, in his ., quoted the words of his father Wang Niansun “Meanings of alliterative and rhymed characters are generally based on pronunciation rather than forms.”

CLEAR

渐变

Legend

hereditary

HERE

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-67723-6In linguistic studies, the quantity of concrete objects is called nominal quantification while the quantity of actions is called verbal quantification. Each quantification consists of numerals as well as classifiers in Chinese.

该得

,Entwöhnung nach Respirator-Therapie,There are a great number of long simple sentences in modern written Chinese, and they tend to contain a lot of coordinated structures and modifying components. Such sentences, however, are rare in ancient Chinese, and complicated topics are mostly expressed by compound sentences.

FACET

Akute respiratorische InsuffizienzWhen it comes to Chinese language phonological changes are the most complicated and most significant of all. In ., the songs were collected from different dynasties and states throughout five hundred years, ranging from Qi in the east to Qin in the west.

借喻

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-67723-6The historical changes of speech sounds are very complicated, involving not only chronological variations across eras, but also dialectal variations in each single era.

Headstrong

»Strahlenspätschäden« des GehirnsLiterary compositions in rhyme appear early in ancient Chinese, mostly to the beat of labor routines in everyday life. The ballads and proverbs in colloquial language were the “sounds of the nature”. Later some verses were deliberately composed and recorded, as in the following example from “Boyi and Houji” in The Book of Documents.