Word-Order Change and Grammaticalization in the History of Chinese

"This is a very important work, the first book in English on the historical grammar of Chinese. The scholarship is excellent, and besides discovering and presenting fresh data, the author also makes significant contributions to theoretical analysis."—Alain Peyraube, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales

• 1. Grammaticalization and the history of Chinese syntax; 2. Word-order change in prepositional phrases; 3. The BA construction and the grammaticalization of BA; 4. The history of LE; 5. The history of DE; 6. The historical syntax and the history of Chinese.