Juan, Wu (2020) Mechanisms of Contact-induced Linguistic Creations in Chinese Buddhist Translations. ACTA ORIENTALIA ACADEMIAE SCIENTIARUM HUNGARICAE, 73 (3). pp. 385-418. ISSN 0001-6446
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Abstract
While it has long been noted that Chinese Buddhist translations contain many new lexical and syntactic elements that were created due to the contact between Indic and Chinese languages during the translation process, few attempts have been made to systematically explore the major mechanisms of such contact-induced creations. This paper examines six mechanisms of contact-induced lexical creations and three mechanisms of contact-induced syntactic creations in Chinese Buddhist translations. All of these mechanisms have parallels in non-Sinitic language contacts. The parallels demonstrate that Chinese Buddhist translations and non-Sinitic language contacts show striking similarities in the ways in which they brought about new lexical and syntactic elements.
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| Additional Information: | Funding Agency and Grant Number: National Social Science Fund of China [2018VJX071] Funding text: An earlier draft of this paper was presented at the workshop 'Connections: China and the West in the Making of History' held at the University of Oxford China Centre on 6 December 2017. I thank participants for their helpful comments. The paper was subsequently revised, with the financial support of the National Social Science Fund of China (Grant No. 2018VJX071). My sincere thanks go to two anonymous reviewers for their constructive remarks. All remaining errors are mine alone. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | history; lexicon; Language contact; Sanskrit; Chinese Buddhist translations; Prakrit; contact-induced linguistic creations; |
| Subjects: | D History General and Old World / történelem > D0 History (General) / történelem általában P Language and Literature / nyelvészet és irodalom > PI Oriental languages and literatures / keleti nyelvek és irodalmak |
| SWORD Depositor: | MTMT SWORD |
| Depositing User: | MTMT SWORD |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Nov 2022 07:21 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Nov 2022 07:21 |
| URI: | http://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/153115 |
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