Elements of Chinese Grammar: With a Preliminary Dissertation on the Characters, and the Colloquial Medium of the Chinese, and an Appendix Containing the Tahyoh of Confucius with a Translation

Joshua Marshman

doi:10.1017/CBO9781139507288

Chinese, in its various forms, is spoken today by over a billion people, making it the most spoken language in the world. A member of the Sino-Tibetan family, it is a tone language with an analytic structure. First published in 1814, this grammar of colloquial Chinese was compiled by the Christian missionary Joshua Marshman (1768–1837), who was inspired to do so after preparing a Chinese translation of the Bible. It begins with a preliminary essay outlining the characters of Chinese, its tones, its system of monosyllables and its relationship to neighbouring languages. The grammar itself is extensive, covering all aspects of the language's structure, including case, agreement, pronouns, verbs, mood, tense, prosody, parts of speech and dialect variation. Illustrated with numerous examples and explaining each grammatical concept in detail, this work remains useful and relevant in historical linguistics.

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PREFACE
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ERRATA
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PART I - ON THE CHARACTERS
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PART II - ON THE COLLOQUIAL MEDIUM
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ELEMENTS OF CHINESE GRAMMAR
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Introductory Remarks
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OF SUBSTANTIVES
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OF ADJECTIVES
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OF PRONOUNS
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OF VERBS
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OF PARTICLES
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OF SYNTAX
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OF DIALECT
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APPENDIX. The TA-HYOH, containing
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The “King,” or Text of Confucious, The Comment of Tsung-tsse
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Elements of Chinese Grammar

With a Preliminary Dissertation on the Characters, and the Colloquial Medium of the Chinese, and an Appendix Containing the Tahyoh of Confucius with a Translation

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Frontmatter
pp i-ii

PREFACE
pp iii-xviii

Contents
pp xix-xxvi

ERRATA
pp xxvii-xxviii

PART I - ON THE CHARACTERS
pp 1-80

PART II - ON THE COLLOQUIAL MEDIUM
pp 81-182

ELEMENTS OF CHINESE GRAMMAR
pp 183-184

Introductory Remarks
pp 185-194

OF SUBSTANTIVES
pp 194-269

OF ADJECTIVES
pp 269-320

OF PRONOUNS
pp 321-388

OF VERBS
pp 389-460

OF PARTICLES
pp 461-498

OF SYNTAX
pp 499-556

OF DIALECT
pp 557-566

APPENDIX. The TA-HYOH, containing
pp 567-567

The “King,” or Text of Confucious, The Comment of Tsung-tsse
pp 568-622

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