中西学术传统下的汉语语法史

The History of Chinese Grammars in Chinese and Western Scholarly Traditions

本文在介绍17世纪到20世纪初西方学者与传教士所编撰的大批汉语描写性语法书的基础上,评价他们的贡献;集中分析西方学者对量词这一欧洲语言中不存在的词类的处理,讨论其理论框架的优劣。本文还分析了在中国本土语言学传统中,对语法理论的关注度长期不足的原因。

This paper evaluates the contributions of a large number of descriptive grammars for Chinese languages compiled by Western scholars and missionaries from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries.It not only focuses on the treatment by Western scholars of the numeral classifier,a part of speech not found in European languages,but also discusses the strengths and weaknesses of the different theoretical frameworks.Besides,the paper analyzes the reasons for the prolonged lack of any theoretical interest in grammar revealed in the native Chinese linguistic tradition.