University of Oxford China Centre

Christoph Harbsmeier, Professor Emeritus at the University of Oslo (B.A. Merton College, Oxford 1969), is a distinguished expert in Chinese linguistics with profound specialist knowledge of ancient Chinese grammar and syntax. The workshop will be focused on close reading of the Zuozhuan 左傳 with particular attention paid to the analysis of compositional and syntactical patterns of the text. The participants are expected to be familiar with the first part of the text (Duke Yin 隱公) and to be prepared for detailed syntactical and semantic analysis of years 3-5 in particular. It is also expected that participants will have studied pages 525-544 of “A summary of Classical Chinese analytic syntax” very carefully. (See the list of recommended literature below.)