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This book presents new perspectives on the study of Aspect and Modality in Chinese Historical Linguistics. Based on the international Workshop on Aspect and Modality in Chinese, the book includes the latest research findings in the field to make them available not only to specialists in Classical and Buddhist Chinese, but also to researchers and students of general linguistics and of the universals of language. It also discusses different aspects of the AM (Aspect-Modality) and the TAM (Tense-Aspect-Modality) system of Chinese. It provides a comprehensive overview of both of the universally related systems of aspect and modality. The first part of the book focuses on aspectual features of Chinese; these include basic studies on the syntactic representation of the aspectual structure of the verb phrase in Archaic Chinese, the aspectual function of different object constructions and their development, temporal features of the verb phrase, and the aspectual functions of no minalization processes. The second part includes articles highlighting different aspects of the modal system or the interplay between tense, aspect and modality in Chinese, including a survey on the history of studies on modality in Chinese and the modal and temporal aspectual/markers indicating future meanings, a specialized study on modal deontic verbs in the Buddhist Vinaya texts, the modal function of rhetorical questions in Buddhist Chinese, and a study on the diachronic development of the aspectual and modal system in Chinese.

Chinese language. --- Linguistics. --- Oriental languages. --- Chinese. --- Historical Linguistics. --- Oriental Languages. --- Languages, Oriental --- Linguistic science --- Science of language --- Language and languages --- Sino-Tibetan languages

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This book is a study of the concept of wilāya and its developments among Shīʿī scholars from the eighteenth to twentieth century. Leila Chamankhah addresses a number of issues by delving into the conceptualizations of wilāya through the examination and interpretation of key texts. She focuses on the influence of ibn ʿArabī’s mysticism, with regard to the conception of wilāya, on his Shīʿa successors and expositors in later centuries. She also discusses the development and transformation of the conception of wilāya over two hundred years, from the esoteric school of Shaykhīsm to the politicization of wilāya in the theory of wilāyat al-faqīh.

Islam-Doctrines. --- Indo-Iranian philology. --- Middle East-History. --- Ethnology-Middle East . --- Middle Eastern literature. --- Middle East-Politics and governm. --- Islamic Theology. --- Indo-Iranian Languages. --- History of the Middle East. --- Middle Eastern Culture. --- Middle Eastern Literature. --- Middle Eastern Politics. --- Near Eastern literature --- Indo-Aryan philology --- Islam—Doctrines. --- Indo-Iranian languages. --- Middle East—History. --- Ethnology—Middle East . --- Middle East—Politics and government. --- Indo-European languages --- Islam --- Oriental languages. --- Middle East --- Ethnology --- Culture. --- Oriental or Semitic Languages. --- Cultural sociology --- Culture --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Languages, Oriental --- Dogma, Islamic --- Islamic theology --- Kalam --- Muslim theology --- Theology, Islamic --- Theology, Muslim --- Doctrines. --- History. --- Middle East . --- Politics and government. --- Social aspects