Title: Chronological Analysis of the Prepositions Zi and Cong(自/从)
Abstract: This paper makes a thorough investigation of the prepositions Zi and Cong(自/从) employed in many important classi-cal literatures written in ancient Chinese. On the basis of descriptions and statistics, the author arrives at the conclusion that de-velopment of the two prepositions Zi and Cong(自/从),which indicate the starting point of time and locality, is not well-bal-anced. Especially a contrast of the preposition Zi(自) expressing time with Zi (自) denoting locality proves that the preposition (从) employed instead of Zi(自) began from the starting point of locality and germinated from the late period of early stage Chi- nese.
Publication Year: 2007
Publication Date: 2007-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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