Differentiation and Continuity in Classical Chinese Grammar-Apropos of Two Recent Works by Christoph Harbsmeier

Differentiation and Continuity in Classical Chinese Grammar-Apropos of Two Recent Works by Christoph Harbsmeier

Christoph Harbsmeier, who teaches Chinese at the University of Oslo, Norway, has published two books in recent years which constitute an important contribution to the field of Chinese grammar. The first is a translation from French into German of Wilhelm von Humboldt's letter to Abel-Rémusat (which appeared in Paris in 1827 under the title Lettre à M. Abel-Rémusat sur la nature des formes grammaticales en général et sur le génie de la langue chinoise) entitled Brief an M. Abel-Rémusat über die Natur grammatischer Formen im allgemeinen und uber den Geist der chinesischen Sprache im besonderen, as vol 17 of the series Grammatica Universalis, published 1979 in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt by Friedrich Frommann Verlag.