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Tense and Aspect in Early Chinese Buddhist Literature: A Diachronic and Comparative Study (01S1515)

This research deals with the contextualized usages of tense and aspect expressions in early Chinese Buddhist literature produced before the fifth century, the primary sources of early Chinese. The linguistic features of their tense and aspect markers will be compared with those in pre-Buddhist texts and contemporary non-Buddhist texts thus revealing how those markers developed in early Chinese.

Date:16 Feb 2015 →  30 Nov 2019
Keywords:early Chinese Buddhist literature, tense, aspect
Disciplines:Diachronic linguistics, Theoretical linguistics, Chinese language