It takes the average reader 12 hours and 19 minutes to read The Evolution of Chinese Grammar by Yuzhi Shi
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
The Chinese language has the longest well-documented history among all human languages, making it an invaluable resource for studying how languages develop and change through time. Based on a twenty-year long research project, this pioneering book is the English version of an award-winning study originally published in Chinese. It provides an evolutionary perspective on the history of Chinese grammar, tracing its development from its thirteenth-Century BC origins to the present day. It investigates all the major changes in the history of the language within contemporary linguistic frameworks, and illustrates these with a wide range of examples taken from every stage in the language's development, showing how the author's findings are relevant to contemporary descriptive, theoretical, and historical linguistics. Shedding light on the essential properties of Chinese and, ultimately, language in general, it is essential reading for academic researchers and students of Asian linguistics, historical linguistics and syntactic theory.
The Evolution of Chinese Grammar by Yuzhi Shi is 725 pages long, and a total of 184,875 words.
This makes it 245% the length of the average book. It also has 226% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 16 hours and 50 minutes to read The Evolution of Chinese Grammar aloud.
The Evolution of Chinese Grammar is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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