The Evolution Of The Chinese Language: As Exemplifying The Origin And Growth Of Human Speech (1888) - Tapa blanda

Edkins, Joseph

 
9781437043969: The Evolution Of The Chinese Language: As Exemplifying The Origin And Growth Of Human Speech (1888)
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ISBN 10: 1437043968 ISBN 13: 9781437043969
Editorial: Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2008

Sinopsis

The Evolution of the Chinese Language: As Exemplifying the Origin and Growth of Human Speech is a book written by Joseph Edkins and published in 1888. The book explores the evolution of the Chinese language and its role in the development of human speech. Edkins argues that the Chinese language is a unique example of the evolution of language, and that it provides important insights into the origins and growth of human speech. The book covers a range of topics, including the history of the Chinese language, the development of its writing system, and the relationship between Chinese and other languages. Edkins also explores the cultural and social context in which the Chinese language developed, and how it has been influenced by various factors over time. The Evolution of the Chinese Language is a valuable resource for anyone interested in linguistics, history, or Chinese culture.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

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China is separated by tlie ocean, by deserts, and by mountain chains from all nations possessed of original literatures, and lier language is more isolated than any other form of human speech studied by philologists. While Chinese has been brought to a high degree of excellence by a people devoted to literary pursuits, it remains possessed of a primitive order of words, and a monosyllabic structure. These peculiarities give it a claim to be a direct descendant of the mother tongue of humanity, but it is not itself that mother tongue. Nor, so far as can be seen, is any other language having a wide area, whether near or far away, a descendant of the Chinese. Further, it may be said that there is no other language, or family of language, which can be more reasonably assumed to be the speech first used in the worlds grey morning than can the Chinese. None has proceeded on its course more naturally and gradually, or suffered less by violent inversions in the arrangement of roots. Hence, Chinese is regarded in this essay as the equivalent of the primeval language, and is treated as forming with that language, as seen through a long perspective, a consolidated unity.
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Editorial
Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Año de publicación
2008
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1437043968
ISBN 13 
9781437043969
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
116
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