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The Age of Standardization

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Abstract

With the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, the conditions under which Chinese linguists worked changed dramatically. These changes took place in three areas: education, the organization of academic research, and language policy.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    See Grootaers (1953/1957); presently this institute is part of the Academy of Social Sciences.

  2. 2.

    ZGYW bianjibu (1953).

  3. 3.

    Grootaers (1953).

  4. 4.

    Chinese translation: People’s Publishing House, Peking, 1950.

  5. 5.

    Qu Qiubai--> (1932).

  6. 6.

    Certain contention over this matter still exists today, as is shown by, e.g., letters to the editor in the China Daily (Nov. 8, 17, and 28, 1985); for the directive, see ZGYW 43 (1956), pp. 6–7.

  7. 7.

    Gao Gengsheng (1982: 343–362), Zhu Xing (1979: 103–112), Lü Bisong (1979: 35–36).

  8. 8.

    Lü Jiping (1955).

  9. 9.

    That is, grammatically, the adherents of B still agreed with Lü Jiping’s summary of the distribution of verb-->, actor, and goal, but for them that is a matter of semantics, not of grammar.

  10. 10.

    See Zhu Dexi (1982: 110 ff.); Lü Bisong (1979: 29 ff.); Zhu Xing (1979: 85–92); Gao Gengsheng (1982: 397–400).

  11. 11.

    Yang Xin’an (1956/1958); see Zhu Xing (1979:97–103); Gao Gengsheng (1982:405).

  12. 12.

    See Henne et al. (1977: 209–210; 250–255).

  13. 13.

    Not to be confused with the “place word” shang

  14. 14.

    Gao Gengsheng (1982: 348–362).

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Peverelli, P. (2015). The Age of Standardization. In: The History of Modern Chinese Grammar Studies. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46504-2_5

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