Elements of Chinese Grammar: With A Preliminary Dissertation On The Characters, And The Colloquial Medium Of The Chinese, And An Appendix Containing . Perspectives from the Royal Asiatic Society)

First published in 1814, this is an extensive grammar of colloquial Chinese, compiled by a Christian missionary. Illustrated with numerous examples and explaining each grammatical concept in detail, it covers all aspects of the language's structure, including case, agreement, pronouns, verbs, mood, tense, prosody, parts of speech and dialect variation.