论汉语句法的灵活性——跋《古代汉语特殊句法》

On Flexibility of Chinese Syntax——Prelude to Special Syntax of Ancient Chinese

著名语言学家吕叔湘晚年撰文指明“汉语句法的灵活性”,举例论述的主要是现代汉语句法。陈梦韶遗著《古代汉语特殊句法》付梓问世,深入论证“汉语句法不光有固定的一面,还有灵活的一面”,从而填补了汉语研究只谈古汉语句法固定面,“不谈或少谈”古汉语句法灵活性之空白。

As an outstanding linguist, Lv Shuxiang points out the flexibility of Chinese Syntax in his later life, by listing mainly the modern Chinese syntactical structures. Chen Mengshao's legacy of Special Syntax of Ancient Chinese makes a further research in this regard, i.e. Chinese has its stiffness as well as flexibility in syntactic structures, which fill in the gap between two extremes.