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From Synthetic to Analytic Modal Negation: Modal Negative Markers from Han to Tang
Seiten 441 - 468
DOI https://doi.org/10.13173/zeitdeutmorggese.165.2.0441
In the following discussion a comprehensive analysis of the modal negative markers of Han period Chinese expressing deontic modality, i. e. prohibition, and their development in the early Buddhist literature is at issue. Significant changes can be observed in the system of modal marking during these periods. In Archaic Chinese a complex system of synthetic modal negative markers exists, equally marked morphologically by the initial *