Elements of chinese grammar: with a preliminary dissertation on the characters and the colloquial medium of the Chinese, an an appendix containing the Ta-hyoh of Confucius with a translation

Mission Press, 1814

Of the Elements	6

On the Origin of the Characters	15

On the Number of the Characters	29

Of the carious Classes of the Primitives	37

Of the Formatives	46

Primitives of the first class exemplified	54

Reflections on the Primitives	72

ON THE COLLOQUIAL MEDIUM	81

The Numerals	297

The Ordinals	319

Of their various Kinds 269	321

The Second Person	325

The Relative and Interrogative Pronouns	332

The Demonstratives c	342

Of the Gender Number and Case of the Pronouns 370 Ibid	370

Of the Pronouns as used to express Respect or Contempt	379

Of the Initial Powers of the Chinese Language	89

Synopsis of the Finals	99

Tables containing the Monosyllables of the language	112

The Chinese Colloquial System compared with the Hebrew	118

Prevalence of the Chinese and Sungskrit Systems in the surrounding nations	146

Probable introduction of the latter with Boudhism of Boudhhis birthcountry	153

Of the Tones or Intonations affixed to Chinese words	171

Provincial Variations	179

ELEMENTS OF CHINESE GRAMMAR	185

Of their various Kinds	197

Of the Gender of Substantives	203

Of Number	210

Of Case	218

The Dative	225

The Comparison of Adjectives Page	235

The Vocative	244

The Ablative	251

The Locative	259

OF ADJECTIVES	269

OF VERBS	390

Of Person and Number	448

Of the Auxiliary Verbs	455

Adverbs of Likeness	461

Of Prepositions c	485

Continuatives	492

OF SYNTAX	499

Compounds denoting Rank Profession c	510

Remarks on the Syntax of Nouns	517

Of Punctuation	541

Its state under Yu	547

The Couplet and Stanza	555

Concluding Reflections	563

The Comment of Tsungtsee	6

On examination as extending knowledge Ibid	14

On duly regulating the passions Page 16	16

Observations on tracing the characters in the Dictionaries 33	33

The other characters in Tahyoh explained from p 37 to p 56	56

Title	Elements of chinese grammar: with a preliminary dissertation on the characters and the colloquial medium of the Chinese, an an appendix containing the Ta-hyoh of Confucius with a translation
Author	Joshua Marshman
Publisher	Mission Press, 1814
Original from	the Bavarian State Library
Digitized	24 Mar 2011

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