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Flexible Use of Parts of Speech

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A General Theory of Ancient Chinese

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To distinguish parts of speech is the basis for syntactic and grammatical analysis of ancient Chinese. Except in some special cases, parts of speech in ancient Chinese are roughly similar to those of modern Chinese. In this chapter, we proposed the method for classification as follows.

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Jiang, L., Ren, M. (2023). Flexible Use of Parts of Speech. In: A General Theory of Ancient Chinese. Qizhen Humanities and Social Sciences Library. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-6042-9_7

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